Sunday,
Fairview Park skate park, Fairview, Dublin 3
Photographer Donal Moloney writes:
What I know about skateboarding and in particular it’s culture could be written on the back of a stamp. I tend to think of them as the street version of surfer dudes, just less tanned, less toned and more likely to get up later in the dayYesterday I learned a little more.
I was on my way to Howth for lunch and passing Fairview park when I spotted a group of airborne hairy lads. Torn between the choice of filling my belly and a photo opportunity, I opted for the latter. A couple of hours later I was a lot hungrier but a little wiser.
In between bouts of high energy flips and turns introduced myself and asked a few if they’d mind me taking some shots. They were more than helpful. Here’s a few of my notes:
Pic 3 and 10: Brian (26) had recently returned to Ireland having done an internship as a writer at the cCannabis Career Institute. “Some things grow better in a different environment” he said.
Pic 1 and 7: Niall ( 27), is a musician with ‘Slappingboysbottoms‘ and has an ambition to develop the clothing brand ‘Kurbjunki’.
Pic 4 and 5: Dion (26) is a music producer and one of the original crew at Fairview park.
Evan or ‘Minty‘ (19) as he prefers to be known, arrived straight from the night shift at Dublin Airport. A very bubbly and talkative character. He’d make a great politician.
Pic 8: Lukasz (28) “Skateboarding more popular in Poland”
Pic 6: Cathal (20) Back from a J1 in LA.. Doing a masters in Engineering.
Not pictured: Mark (27) Studied art at NCAD. “Parks are great but we learned on the street, the kerbs.”
Great piece, I enjoyed that.
Me too. Good stuff.
Great stuff. Glen E Friedman, eat your heart out.
Did they feed the pigeons after?
Nice piece. I wonder though why it is usually just lads?
serious bang of the Scissored Isle of that donal…comical
“Skateboarding more popular in Poland” he said in the voice of Ivan Drago.