Even though skateboarding is a sport I think the photography goes beyond sport photography, the people that do it come from all backgrounds and have such different characteristics but are pulled together through this piece of wood with wheels. Skateboard photography is being able to capture a trick with perfect timing and make sure you get the right angle, but theres the huge social aspect of it. Photographers have been able to capture this life style over the past 40 years. Documenting the way skaters live, act, and socialise with each other. Ive been looking more deeply into what makes skateboarders brake through this stereo type of a teenage sport that they grow out of, so I've been looking through all the skate books I own and one stands out which is "Mike Blabac: the art of skateboard photography."
This book shows the progression of skateboarding through Mike Blabac's Career from shooting with 35mm and medium format to using Nikon DSLR's and in this time technology might have evolved but the aspect of skateboarding and being a skateboarder hasn't changed and it is shown in this book with a huge documentation of the sport and the people over his whole career.
http://theberrics.com/shoot-all-skaters/mike-blabac.html - link to a video talking about his work.
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