Urban art represents a still young but fast growing subculture in Japan. Once considered to be the exclusive domain of street outlaws, urban art is now rapidly gaining in respectability, and slowly crossing over into the mainstream art world. This project is designed to offer Japan's burgeoning scene a first-hand account of recent urban art trends and movements around the world.
In Uganda, nobody knows about skateboarding as soon as we leave the slum area of Kitintale. Thirty years after its worldwide expansions, the skateboarding culture appeared in Uganda. As a skateboarder myself, I started to document the birth of this subculture since the early beginning and will follow its expansion, influenced by the Ugandan daily life context and African culture. For the last few years I have been going back to Uganda for two months every year to document the growing scene. This subculture grows every year and the idea of the project is to document the evolution in the next decade.
