one thing first: here, the term “amateur” does not stand for a lack of skill, but for its original meaning: doing something purely for the love of it.
amateur class is dedicated to collecting, scanning and publishing analogue photography from private archives, documenting the berlin skate scene of the 1970s and 1980s from the inside.
first up are 297 scans from the private archive of berlin skate legend martin “kongo” boehmfeldt.
the pictures show berlin’s major skate spots at the time, skate-trips and competitions.
we will be adding more archives from fixtures of the berlin skate scene of the 1980s soon,
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