Skater Girls

Jenny Sampson's follow-up to her acclaimed collection of tintype skateboarder portraits (Skaters, Daylight 2017) focuses on female skateboarders. Although historically a male-dominated sport, there have always been girls in the skate- boarding landscape. By turning her lens on these members of the community all over California, Washington and Oregon, Sampson hopes to increase visibility and honor these girls, young and older, who have been breaking down this gender wall with their skater girl power.
Increasing the visability of under-represented girl skateboarders, these portraits are captured on location with the photographic historical process, wet plate collodion using a portable darkroom and 8x10 view camera.
Jenny Sampson is a photographer based in Berkeley, CA whose rst book Skaters (Daylight 2017) made waves within the extreme sports community and beyond. Her tintype photographs are in numerous private collections.
Becky Beal, PhD, is an associate professor of kinesiology at California State University in Hayward, CA, where she teaches classes in the sociology and phi- losophy of sport. For nearly thirty years she has researched and wri en about the cultural and political dynamics of skateboarding.
Cindy Whitehead was one of the rst professional female skateboarders, a Skateboard Hall of Fame Inductee and is now a 'sports stylist' for stars around the world. Her rst book IT'S NOT ABOUT PRE Y: A Book About Radical Skater Girls was released in 2017.