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Ari Marcopoulos is a self-taught photographer who was born in Amsterdam in 1957. In 1980 when he was 23, he moved to New York City and became a prominent photographer for hip-hop culture, skater culture, snowboard culture, and fashion. His recently released book, Polaroids 92-95 (CA) is one part of a two-part series documenting the skating scene during the early 1990s. One book takes place in New York and one in California, and while the New York book’s photographs were taken from a single skate park, the Brooklyn Banks, the CA version takes place in a multiple across the Californian coast. The collections are made to be open ended and Marcopoulos was motivated by his fond memory of the time and of his relationships from the time. Taken on polaroid, the book lacks color outside of the yellow staining which come about from Macropoulos’s process; he’s made the 90s vintage... By Nick Rutolo