{"id":700,"date":"2025-05-30T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irismag.uk\/?p=700"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:58:29","slug":"leo-sharp-on-skate-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/irismag\/2025\/05\/30\/leo-sharp-on-skate-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding&#8217;s Visual Historian: Leo Sharp on Skate Culture and the Perfect Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Leo Sharp is a pioneering photographer who has seen the evolution of skateboarding since its boom in the late 80s.\u00a0Also a lecturer at Falmouth University, he is now passing on his photography skills and experiences to the next generation.\u00a0As the photo editor and co-founder of The Skateboarder\u2019s Companion approached his 50th birthday, he reflects on his career and experiences within the industry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Escaping \u201cJock Sport\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At 11 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sharphoto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leo<\/a> got his first skateboard, a skinny plastic toy from the local indoor market:&nbsp;\u201cI don&#8217;t know how we fit our knees on those tiny, five-inch-wide boards. We all used to go down and pile into the grass cuttings at the bottom of the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt became clear that I wasn&#8217;t that great at football and didn&#8217;t enjoy it. So I gravitated towards skating. It didn&#8217;t seem like there was any competitiveness in it. You did it, had fun, learned tricks, and that was sort of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a couple of years and a growing enthusiasm, Leo got his first professional skateboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a Santa Cruz, Rob Roskopp with independent trucks and bullet wheels. Everything was colour coordinated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skateboarding Hub in Milton Keynes was only 20 minutes down the road, and he began to venture there, meet new people, and embed himself into the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSkateboarding is really social, it helped me spread my wings, and the photography came slightly later. I was lucky that I had my subject matter before I really got into photography. I was interested in documenting my friends, learning to skateboard, doing tricks, and getting better at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was photographing the culture and the fashion aspect of it, but didn&#8217;t even realize it. 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I remember getting my first semi-professional camera in 1991. It was a Minolta x300s, and that summer, I grabbed a couple of rolls of film and shot pictures of my friends skateboarding in Milton Keynes. I was set up to write, and RAD published a three-page article.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While RAD gave him the platform, it was the guidance of Matthew \u201cWig\u201d Worland that elevated Mr Sharp\u2019s photography skills: &#8220;He was a couple of years older than me and had a better camera and a fish eye lens, which was the lens that you lusted after to take great looking wide angle photos. I was too young and didn&#8217;t have the money for that. He took me under his wing and used the local council-run darkroom to show me how to print black and white pictures.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trip to America allowed Leo to visit his dream spot: &#8220;I went to the Embarcadero Centre in San Francisco in 1997, then hubba hideout, which were the iconic ledges down the stairs around the corner. There&#8217;s something about that place. My girlfriend and I got the Greyhound bus across America and arrived in San Francisco at 6 am. All I wanted to do was visit the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe searched downtown for an hour until we found it, and it&#8217;s one of those places you&#8217;ve seen in so many skateboard videos. 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