Skin Phillips 360 Photo Show Recap

Originally posted on TransWorld SKATEboarding
By Blair Alley | Last updated Oct 24, 2024 1:14 PM ET

Toby Batchelor, Martin Kennelly (from Slugger Skate Store) and I travelled down to Swansea from the Midlands at 9:30am to check out Skin Phillips 360 photo exhibition that was held at the Glynn Vivian art gallery.

It's fair to say that the exhibition was nothing short of nostalgic, with photographs we've all admired over the years, including some pretty rare and unseen photos too.

The exhibition does a great job of starting from Skin's roots in surf photography, which I myself had never seen before, so being able to see where Skin started from was a very humbling experience. It was interesting to see the history of Skin's photos in a somewhat chronological order from the beaches of Swansea to the streets and pools of California.

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As you made your way round the room, you were quickly greeted with a bunch of sequences, RAD and TransWorld Magazine articles, covers and outtakes.

I spent quite a while looking over the Chad Muska and Rudy Johnson sequences in the sequence section of the gallery. Alongside that was a wall full of early Arto Saari, Elissa Steamer, Bam Margera, Matt Hensley, Jason Dill, Matt Pritchard, and John Rattray photos that appeared in various TransWorld Magazines throughout the years.

A highlight for all of us (or at least me personally) was seeing photos from Jamie Thomas' TransWorld Spotlight that he and Skin shot in 24 hours alongside some golden era Jason Lee and Ray Barbee contact sheet portraits shot followed by the iconic shots of Danny Way's helicopter jump, the Josh Kalis Golden Gate Bridge cover from the November 1995 issue of TWS and Mark Gonzales' tunnel ride at the Städtisches Museum in Germany from 1998.

Finishing off the exhibition is a wall of Tom Penny with his iconic Cheech and Chong deck with a pull from the sequence of Tom's 360 hippy jump over a barrier in a train station somewhere in Europe from the TransWorld video Video Radio.

Aside from a vault load of incredible photos, we also had the privilege of seeing all of our friends and legends from all over the U.K.

This article first appeared on TransWorld Skateboarding and was syndicated with permission.

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