Allen Ying
Bobby Puleo BS Nose grinding through the avenue.
How long have you been shooting in New York?
Since 2001.
What do you think technically makes a good skate photograph?
There are a lot of factors, styles, types and approaches, in skateboarding, and skateboard photography. What do you think technically makes good skateboarding?
What do you like most about photographing in New York, as opposed to any other city in the world?
It’s a city of unique skateboarders, culture and history, and it’s home.
Who have been some of your favorite people to photograph in New York?
Dave Caddo, Casey Rigney, Eli Reed, they’ve always had great ideas of what they want to skate. There are countless others, variety is the spice of life.
What do you feel has been the most ground breaking moment you have been able to photograph in New York?
Well, one time at a 4 stair ledge in sunset park, brooklyn, someone landed too hard and the sidewalk caved in, and then we didn’t get a photo. Also, when Casey Rigney switch backside noseblunt slid around the curved ledge in Downtown Brooklyn, i think it’ll be a while before someone out does that.
What was your favorite Full Bleed moment?
Eli reed’s switch flip at the downtown courthouse, that was pretty crazy, and seems to have set off a resurgence of gnarly sessions there.
Eli strikes again.
