也许你在滑板时喜欢想像，有没有好奇过别人在滑板时会不会神游四海？KickStarter推出重酬项目：“Skater”，摄影师历时3年，游走6个国家20座城市，拍摄了超过300名来自全球各地的滑手，根据摄影师要求，滑手们摆出他们在滑板时最具思考性的动作
After 3 years of shooting over 300 skaters worldwide, this project needs your help to be published as a limited edition fine-art book.
Video Music : SOOTHE THE BROKEN AIR / Daniel Whitechurch
Gallery Images used in the video courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia. Photo: Mark Mohell
“Skater”项目究竟是什么
很多滑手滑板时，内心总是非常专一，这是意识进入了另一种状态。为了拍摄这些人像，我告诉滑手们将自己陷入沉思。
我在苏格兰长大，我也似乎跟运动无缘。我从来就不擅长跑步之类的运动，不过我在滑板上找到了自我，他给了我自信。滑板一个潜在的好处就是可以让你自己一个人享受发自内心的快乐，这点在很多事情上是非常重要的。
我现在住在澳大利亚墨尔本，滑板在这里很常见。2009年时我突然想起一个问题，别的滑手在滑板时会不会也在神游？答案是肯定的。于是我决定记录下当地滑手，告诉他们要将自己放空。我非常吃惊，我们交谈了一会儿，拍摄了5张作品。
我决定在旅途中继续进行我的项目，来求证这是不是一种全世界共享的习惯。我去的地方滑手们都很欢迎，也能瞬间明白我所想的。“其实我们所有人都是一体”一位名叫Luke Brown的滑手说道。
在美国周游时我发现图像越来越模糊，我的视网膜脱落了，视神经也有点肿胀。回到澳大利亚，医生用激光将我的视网膜恢复，我也换了数码相机，来避免病情恶化。不过我的项目仍在继续，第二年我就去了意大利，德国，英国和捷克。路途中陌生人的热情帮助让我的项目实现筹码倍增。
WHAT IS SKATER PROJECT ABOUT
Many skaters speak of a solitary mind space while skating; of entering into another state of consciousness. To make these portraits I asked the skaters to place themselves within this meditative space.
As a child growing up in Scotland, I was the opposite of sporty. I was never the fastest runner and dreaded sports days, but I did find a refuge in skateboarding from a young age. It fitted in perfectly with my tomboy persona and gave me a huge amount of self confidence. An unseen benefit of skating is the ability to detach and exist happily within your own headspace.. in many ways this is essential.
I now live in Melbourne, Australia where skating is a common mode of transport and in 2009 I asked the question,'do other skaters zone out while skating'. The answer was YES. I decided to photograph the skaters in my local area of Fitzroy and asked them to place themselves within this headspace. I was amazed. We talked, I waited and I shot 5 images of each skater.
Was this a worldwide state of mind or would cultural differences play a part. I decided to take the project on the road. Wherever I went skaters welcomed me and immediately understood the common idea. 'We are at one with ourselves', to quote skater Luke Brown.
While in the USA my images became blurry and out of frame. My retina had detached and my optic nerve was swollen. Back in Australia the retina was lasered back into place and I switched to digital photography saving myself any future risk of blurred imagery. The project continued and the next year I visited Italy, Germany, England and the Czech Republic. The kindness of strangers along the road made this project possible.
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