Christian Hosoi Invert Marina Skatepark 1980 Looking at me and I didn’t work for

and I didn’t work for a magazine at the time

The photo is made to order

This is the first edition of my Skatepark series of posters

I drove by this shadow in Del Mar under the freeway everyday on my way from the Del Mar Skate Ranch to The Pannikin to get coffee and I always wanted to integrate skateboarding into the light play somehow

This photo from 1986 was shot in the keyhole pool at DMSR and by the look of our shadows I wasn't looking through the camera's viewfinder

Christian Hosoi Invert Marina Skatepark 1980 Looking at me and I didn’t work forI rediscovered this 1980 Christian Hosoi invert at Marina photo in my garage files a couple of years ago, and at the time I hadn't ever recalled seeing it before that. It was never published at the time I know that, and I didnt work for a magazine at the time, so I guess it just sat in its dark and lonely yellow Kodachrome box for 40 years. I shot this with my first camera, the Minolta SRT201 on Kodachrome64 slide film a year after picking up the