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Carlos Alavarez Montero: Harlem Shuffle

Posted: July 5th, 2009 | Author: kamau | Filed under: photography | 2 Comments »

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I live in Harlem. recently as I’ve watched more and more youngsters pick up skating, I’ve been telling myself “I should shoot the emerging skate culture around me”. Someone else (Carlos Alvarez Montero to be specific) actually did it.

I have lived in places before, where every bannister, every bench had skateboard grind marks, and mostly white suburban kids practiced their “high-flying, 360-degree, death-defying” stunts in most public spaces, to paraphrase one Mars Blackmon. It is fascinating to watch the skate culture take root in Harlem, although the kids I see are playing catch up skill-wise, to their suburban mates.

See also: New York Times: “Skateboarding Rolls Out of the Suburbs”

And just because: Lupe Fiasco “Skate Push“

2 Comments on “Carlos Alavarez Montero: Harlem Shuffle”

  1. 1 Dom said at 8:07 am on July 5th, 2009:

    I had a similar thought here in ATL…nice

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