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Hugh Holland in Black and White

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In 1975, when Hugh Holland first began photographing the skateboarders in southern California, he had already been living in Los Angeles for nine years. His interest in photography had developed in the mid-sixties as a 20-year-old living in his native state of Oklahoma. Except for a college job working in a photo lab, Holland had no formal art education. However, he spent years training his eye by shooting photographs and working with the images.

It wasn't until after returning from a trip to Spain in 1968 and settling into what would become a career in West Hollywood as an antique finisher, that he began to seriously pursue the hobby. He made a dark room and began photographing everything that came into sight.  A favorite subject—from the beginning—was the figure.

Then one afternoon in 1975, while driving up Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Holland encountered his first skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon, and Holland knew he had found his subject. Although not a skateboarder himself, Holland never tired of capturing on film the beauty and grace of the burgeoning craze for the next three years.  By 1978, the scene had become more commercial, and Holland’s documentation of the skateboarders came to its natural end.

Hugh Holland’s Angels series was first shown at M+B in early 2006. Following the success of the show, the work was shown internationally in London, Paris and New York, with upcoming exhibitions in Sydney and the Pera Museum is Istanbul. His work has been featured in The Wall Street JournalThe New Yorkernpr, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2010, the artist’s monograph Locals Only by AMMO Books was published in conjunction with his second exhibition at M+B, and in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles included his work in the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art in a group exhibition entitled “Art in the Streets.” Hugh Holland currently resides in Los Angeles.

Urban Isolation

Urban Isolation from Russell Houghten on Vimeo.

REDirect is a celebration of skateboard filmmaking between www.Red.com and www.TheBerrics.com

Prints are available for purchase. All proceeds will be donated to LA county animal shelters. 1 for $50, 3 for $100 shipped within US. Visit the blog on my website for a selection of prints available and paypal checkout

Directed, Filmed and Edited by: www.RussellHoughten.com
Assistant camera/edit: James Messina

Music by:
www.RichardHoughten.com

"Empty"
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A Cosmic Gift
"Dreams of the Sea"
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The berrics - Artist Statement
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All donations to the tip jar will be donated to Los Angeles County Animal Shelters.

Lords of Dogtown

From i-D:

Photographer Hugh Holland was in the right place at the right time, he says. LA, 1975, specifically. "Skateboarding was happening in many places, but not like in California," he says over the phone from LA, where he still lives at 74. "To me, it seemed like this was the center of everything." Hugh's photos of long-haired, golden-skinned kids gunning down Hollywood's hills and tearing up its boulevards document the very origins of skate culture.

Over the course of three years, Holland took thousands of photos of the scene as it changed from an unruly after-school activity to a professional sport, complete with competitions, endorsement deals, and helmets. Glowing with late-afternoon California light, the images sat unsorted in boxes at his house for decades. But earlier this month, they went on show at Blender Gallery in Sydney (Hugh: "So many of these Australian surfers looked just like the kids in my pictures!"). And Hugh is still sifting through his crates.

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Shadows.

Peter Brings the Shadow to Life from predatory bird on Vimeo.

The title of this video by Joe Pease comes from this essay - http://yhoo.it/IBn2mK - which contains paragraphs such as, "It is not uncommon for children to play with their shadows or to imagine that they are tangible. However, in order to grow up, children must leave behind this fantasy...no one ever fully grows up. Instead, growing up is a process that continues throughout life." Of course, it might just be a bunch of shadows. Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Efeitos secundários.

A crise financeira e económica tem efeitos secundários curiosos. Segundo o New York Times, os skaters americanos andam a descobrir as moradas de casas abandonadas pelos donos, incapazes de pagar as respectivas hipotecas. O objectivo? Re-utilizar as as piscinas para fazer umas manobras. No site Skate and Annoy, num post, diz um deles: “God bless Greenspan, patron saint of pool skatin’.” A reportagem fotográfica é mediana mas documenta bem o movimento: