Skateboarding in Palermo by Silva Wischeropp

Skateboarding began in California in the 1950s. The first skateboards consisted of roller skates attached to a board. Skateboarding gained popularity through surfing: in fact, skateboarding was originally called "sidewalk surfing". The very first skateboards were handmade by individuals from wooden crates and boards. Companies began manufacturing skateboards in 1959 as the sport grew in popularity.
In post-war America, society lived a carefree life and children often played on the streets. Skateboarding is a highly individualised activity that is constantly evolving. Since the year 2000, skateboarding has gone mainstream due to media attention and products such as skateboard video games, children's skateboards and commercialisation. As more interest and more money has been invested in skateboarding, more skateparks and better skateboards have become available. In addition, the continued interest has motivated skateboard companies to continue to innovate and invent new things.
Skateboarding first appeared at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As an experienced and passionate travel photographer whose interests span a broad range, she focuses on portraiture, street life, reportage, documentary, travel, tourism, landscape and nature. In addition, she is known for her recordings in the fields of architecture and fashion. Since 2016, her new repertoire includes surreal digital photo collages. For 20 years she has been known in Germany and abroad as a creative photo artist. Her works have been widely published and exhibited. "The photographic image process represents my personal work and creation area. This means dealing with image worlds, politics, human needs and sensitivities. The camera expands my scope to meet that other reality. Photography makes me happy, creates joy, closes boundaries, opens new doors, widens horizons. The camera teaches me to see, to sharpen the view, to capture moments, to perceive fleeting moments that are not visible to others. I am a creative person, a picture-maker, who draws on herself, does not copy a lot and develops her own imagery. So I move between the poles, reach different fixed points, look behind the scenes. Out of the thousandfold existing I manage to bring out something unique, unique moments of the picture."

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