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First Word: Lew Ross

Magazine V.1.3

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Top Docs Built to Shred with Mike Lasiter D.I.Y. Spotlight Parisite

David Thornton

Contributors Chirs Ulander Mike Lasiter Kim Cook, Lindsey Rowland Lew Ross Peach Orchard Krewe

Yeah, I’d Still Hit It with Chris Ulander Get Branded: Fickle Punk Point ATM Click Bearings

Across the Sea by Kim Cook Artist Profile: Lindsey Rowland

On the cover: 1.Fickle’s Lew Ross Photo by Aaron Ross 2. Franziska Stolz Photo by Fred Ferand This Page: Nawlins Photo courtesy Parisiste Joey

First Word

By Lew Ross

Think of the rebel-creativity that marked early skateboarding.

Craig.

Fucking.

Stecyk. dude's in the Smithsonian.

Why? Effective Lasting cultural Impact.

militantly tightly in the grip of a fatal kind of INCURIOSITY.

But today that Impact... is largely dissipated. and the "Clone War" is on us once again...

We press--actually press--our boards from the absolute greatest cold-grown long-winter straight-shipped Canadian Maple...

Soft Drinks and Shoe Companies run shit.

The Skate Shops are in the pocket... and group think is enforced almost

Pressing boards at Fickle.

Photo: A Ross

Real Creativity, often claimed/seldom realized, is subsumed with Ad dollars as soon as it rears its head...

I own and run a small, but growing, skateboard brand.

then spray them with layer after layer of high-quality, water-based industrial-app polyurethane... then cure them out again...

We make our own screens--build them!

We expose them spray them out. and make all our stickers, hats, shirts on locally-sourced paper and clothing from local print-supply and military surplus sources...

We create all our graphics ON PAPER with paint and marker and develop them from Paper to Screen to board and shirt... and shrink wrap our stuff ourselves. and pack the boxes and ship all over america...

were truly Bomber!

I remember my SHUT Shark, freshpressed in Maine, cut on a rooftop in Brooklyn... Before all the Chapman wood went Chinese... (and god bless the Chapman Boys. much love)

We built our presses We hand-crafted all our molds, and continue to do so.

We long-press our wood Hand-rolled slathered in the strongest highest-pop glue ever used in the industry.

2-at a time in the mold--never deep-stacked.

On 4-hour minimum press times with overnights as often as possible...

We 4-day cure all our boards 4 days minimum to let all glue bonds finish and to let the moisture content level I ended up doing this because man, out I LOVE A GREAT in a custom-built, SKATEBOARD Humidity-controlled under my feet! triple-insulated That Eric Dressen plastic-sealed Speed Freaks vid part Curing Room... where 2 cars hit his board and his setup makes it through the day...

Then we hand-shape custom and stock shapes that was American Made Santa to order.

Cruz wood.

We screen our graphics I rode those in NY after they on the RAW wood. shipped all the way over, and they

My Axe to grind is found in the LOSS of JOY that SKATEBOARDERS have suffered, mostly unknowingly, over the last couple of decades... because not only the wood, but the whole culture has gotten...

Lame stale corporate 2-dimensional... low-quality and the Thrill of the Ride and the weightlessness of Going has been buried under a mountain of sugar-hype stuntster unsustainable

un-fun prove-you're-a-man bullshit... and i want to dig it out... with dynamite. the dynamite of a biting, cutting, unapologetic mediastream...

Photo: A. Ross

Top Docs Some say that skateboarding never cared about its own history. They insist that the nihilistic, devil may care attitude of skateboarders was too spur of the moment to be caught up in history.

I don’t believe this to be true. As a young skateboarder, I cared that Duane Peters had spun the loop. I cared that Tony Alva had done the first frontside air.

Skateboarding has a short history. It has to be remembered just how modern is our art. Skateboarding is born, of course, of surfing, but it is post-apocalyptical bastard child of surfing. While surfing feeds off nature, skateboarding feeds off sprawl.

A good skateboarding documentary must acknowledge that skating is born of sprawl and waste. A good skate documentary must show the nature of the character that finds a surreal, ugly beauty in that sprawl.

And a good skate documentary is about skateboarding’s place in society at a given time. It marks the change in skating and the world. It is more than history of skateboarding. It is the history of modern society.

The facebook connected readers of luchaskate chose three DVDs above all others: 1. Pray for Me Jason Jessee 2. Who Cares? The Duane Peters Story 3. DogTown and Zboys

Editor’s Choice Skinned Alive chronicles the lives of lifer skaters who have chosen to go under the gun. It features Eric Dressen, Bill Danforth, The Godoy Brothers and others. Not the best told documentary, but one of the most fun to watch nonetheless.

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography fits well in-between the Gator documentary and Christian Hosoi’s Rising Son DVD. The Bones Brigade keep their images squeaky clean, and show why they were, for the most part, the most successful long-term 80’s skaters. A little more skate, a little less (forced) emotion would’ve been nice.

What can be said about this documentary? This, coupled with Pray for Me might just show how strange, fucked up, and talented skateboarders can be all at the same time. A must see for anyone who has heard the name “Master of Disaster” and wondered what it means.

A Day at the Park is NOT a documentary no matter what Netflix says. Why should you watch it? It looks like these guys had FUN making it. Watch this sandwiched between The Man Who Souled the World and the Bones Brigade documentary.

If you always dreamed of skating pools, but lived somewhere without pools (Midwest for example) this movie will stoke you to find a round wall of some kind and carve it, grind it, air out of it. Steve Olson, Dave Hackett, Salba, Lance Mountain etc. etc. etc...

I’m sure you already own this. If not, what is wrong with you?

Stoking more old men to get back on a board and young kids to learn a bert revert than any other film EVER. Watch this just before you watch Creature’s Hesh Law DVD. Context.

This is another that Netflix made me think was a documentary. It is not. In fact, not only is it not a documentary, it is THE WORST SKATE VIDEO I have ever seen. Avoid Team Ice Cream vol. 1 like the herpes.

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Interview by Kim Cook Build to Shred with Mike Lasiter I met Mike about a year and a half ago over at Terry Kerr’s backyard bowl. He’s the type of guy that quietly shows up and then schools everyone on style and tricks. He’s one of the most open, giving humans that Memphis has ever known. A true skateboarder at heart.

I’ve heard stories of things he’s built over the years and thought it would be cool to give him the spotlight and a chance to share some Memphis skateboarding history with the fans of Luchaskate. I’m lucky to call this person a true friend. Here’s to Mike Lasiter!

1. What was the first thing you built pretty much non-existent here in the and what inspired you to build it? South along with ramps or parks.

My grandmother bought me my first board, a Variflex Chaos in 1984, which is how it all started and after watching Mark Gonzales in the NSA contest Beach Style at Oceanside along with the NSA skate contests at the Del Mar bowl in California, I built a kicker ramp in my friend’s driveway in 1986.

3. Name everything you have been a part of building in Memphis?

1986 Kicker for me and my friends, along with railslides and ramps for The Bike Man.

1987 Vert ramp for an old school skateboarder that lived across the street from 2. What examples did you have to go me. by in the skate world?

The Bike Man, owned by Randy Smith, formed a bike/skate team and asked me to be on it along with a few of my friends and he had ordered the NSA videos which is where I got my first ideas of ramps and obstacles to skate. He later purchased the Coca-Cola ramp, a portable half pipe, which had been skated by the legendary Brian Sneed and Jeff Green in the 1970’s by the way. It that had no flat and was 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide (gnarly to say the least), and we traveled around doing demos for Muscular Distrophy and pretty much any one who would let us skate in front of them. We later built a few quarter pipes, rail slides, and kickers for the demos. I thank Randy Smith and my grandmother for getting me involved. Jetway in Bartlett was one of the first examples of a skatepark, and in the 1980’s, we were jumping the fence to skate it, until I got arrested in late 1986 for trespassing there. I believe that all of this had a big influence on building ramps here in Memphis, because quite frankly, skateboarders were

Deep end smith grind.

Photo by Wrex Cook

1988 I built all of the quarter pipes, railslides, and boxes for Mother Skates.

We did several contests with these ramps including Millington Invasion I & II at the Navy base in 1988, Not Hot Air at Motorsports Speedway in Millington where we brought in Jeff Kendall and Tom Knox to demo and judge our contest. Thank you Cindy Springer(Mother Skates owner) for all of those good years.

from Little Rock to build it. They invite me to help and later I add obstacles to it until it closes down 10 months later.

2001 Hired to design and build the Skate park of Memphis for Josh Lowry. This was my biggest accomplishment and it included a wooden bowl which I had never built before, along with adjustable hand rails, pyramids, quarter pipes, banks, and many more obstacles that were altered 1989 I built the Edge skate park for my throughout the 7 years that it was open. friend Wes Briggs.

Unfortunately, a corporation by the name of CB Richard Ellis took over the property 1998 I convinced Clyde Warner, owner management and they did not like us from and designer of Flying “W” handle bars the start, so they slapped an unpayed and bikes, to open up Darkside skate park maintenance fees of $26,000 that the in midtown. I then petitioned the city to previous owner had told Josh not to worry get all of the ramps that had been built about and they gave Josh until the end of and left behind here in a warehouse from the month to pay it knowing that he the MTV Music & Sports festival that was couldn’t and that it would force Josh to held here on Riverside drive in 1997. We shut down the park and it did in 2008 all were only able to retrieve the mid size half because they didn’t like the skateboarder pipe that was on the stage because the crowd and wanted to give the space to the street obstacles were torn apart and we Cheerleading Station next door. Hundreds had no where to put a Team Pain built 80 of kids were once again left with out a ft wide vert ramp(sad day). Darkside was skate park in Memphis with the exception bought out around 2000 and then later of a few poorly made prefab/concrete closed. parks built by local contractors and prefab companies. This was truly a sad day.

1999 Adam Key’s family decides to open a skate park in Bartlett and hires Shelton

Lein to tail on his own creation.

Photo by Kim Cook

Crailer. Tobey Park.

Photo by Kim Cook

2009 I rebuilt the SPOM bowl in Terry Kerr’s backyard where it still stands today.

2010 Trife ramp on Evelyn.

2010-2011 Helped design Tobey Skate Park in addition to attending all of the meetings to get the skate park. Thanks to Aaron Schafer for getting this project seen and off the ground.

2011 Helped with Altown II. 2004 I built a half pipe for a kid in Olive Branch as a last wish come true from his father. A few of us went down and skated it with him a few times before he passed away.

2006 I also built a few ramps here and there for parents wanting to give their kids something to skate.

2012 David Nestler and Lindsey Rowland’s half pipes.

4. What was the funnest thing you built?

My first kicker.

2007 Built a half pipe in the backyard of Josh 5. Do you feel that it is important for Lowry’s home. skateboarders to learn to build? Why? 2008 The first Altown comes to life. I helped on some of the work which was being done with concrete but this was truly a Joesph Williams’ project. I tried to get the city to donate the property to us for a new DIY spot but they sell it in a tax sale out from underneath us. I had taken the bowl apart from SPOM and moved it to Altown in hopes of rebuilding it there but when this happened we had to switch gears. At this point, my long friend Terry Kerr who I had grew up skating with me and he wanted to build a ramp in his backyard, so I convinced him after we ran some numbers, to allow me to move the bowl to his house.

Yes I do. First and foremost, it's important to build ramps and DIY spots to show the community and local government that there is a skateboarding community here that has an interest in getting more parks and places to skate for kids and adults of all ages, and that the revenue generated from taxes paid by all of us can be set aside and incorporated in to future City Skateparks. Secondly, skills like carpentry and concrete work are useful in every day life, and could possibly be the foundation to a future career. It's rewarding to create something with your hands, especially knowing it will be shredded and enjoyed by many people.

D.I.Y. New Orleans

Parisite

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“ Jealous cowards try to control”

“ Try and stop what we do”

“ Try to stop usIts no use�

I put out a call for D.I.Y. spots to cover in the mag. Joey from The Peach Orchard Krewe sent me some links to what they work on down in New Orleans. I emailed him back, but then got sidetracked by something shiny and lost touch with him.

A month later, Joey and Mark from Peach Orchard are in my living room watching skate videos after a long, freezing fucking session at Tobey.

Crazy how things work out. If the rest of the Peach Orchard Krewe are anything like Joey and Mark, they are some cool as people in New Orleans.

New Orleans: Rising above As you can see, the first spot was torn down. However, they persevered, found another location and began to build again.

Talk to the guys for a few minutes about concrete and you can tell they are getting an education in building a skatepark.

Photos courtesy of

“The City of New Orleans, and NORDC have officially voted to designate, "The Peach Orchard," an official skate park. Phase 1 will begin once NORD Foundation has raised $150,000, to be spent on professional build services. Spohn Ranch will donate professional design services to the city of New Orleans. Phase 1 is projected to be completed summer 2013, and will consist of precast concrete from the, "Mississippi Grind," skate barge, additional pour in place concrete, and existing concrete surface remediation. “ -From the Parisite Facebook Page

the Peach Orchard Krewe.

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This gap...

I bailed this gap the second day of the millennium, 1/2/2111, my Parent's anniversary. I was skating into the wind and lost my speed but went for it anyway. My left ankle shot with pain so I ran up to try it again, but by the time I got up there it was so swollen I couldn't feel my toes, so I left it at that. My friend had a walking boot that I slapped on for 5 weeks, never went to the doctor. It's still there, waiting...

Tranny Banks Named for the "ladies of the night" that aren't actually ladies that work the corner, we've been skating here since 1994. Only recently did the city pave the side street, but we skated them anyway. Rough Crete and shitty streets, Memphis style.

CHS Rails We were skating these 20 years ago, and it's still a pretty gnarly spot. I can't tell ya how many times I've wrapped my legs, shins and "me boys" around these and ended up in a heap at the bottom. The run-up sucks, they're tall and hard to get speed for, makes it all the more fun! Stacey Lowery killed these, most notably with a front smith down the top rail to frontside 360 down the second set.

All photos and words courtesy of Chris Ulander Article Header by Kim Cook

lights and sirens and pulled up on the sidewalk trying to surround us. I took off running up Madison by myself, everyone else took off running down Front. I made it about a block when a cop car came squealing around the corner headed right for me.

He's on his loudspeaker telling me to freeze and I took off down an alley. I heard his door open and feet slapping the ground almost right behind me. It was almost dark and I could see his flashlight beam moving up and down in front of me, he was running pretty close.

When I was younger before my knees went to shit I could run like Forrest Gump, so about Old Post Office 3rd street I could see the flashlight beam getting This spot was the meet up spot further behind me, and I from my teens and early heard him gasping for air. I twenties, marble ledges and kept running past 4th street smooth stair sets all over, I and cut back and forth ‘til I have so many memories and lost him, and made my way good times here, 20+ years back to the pit on Beale. I worth. The day would start found my friend Keith who was and usually end at the still skating there and told P.O. Sometime around 1993 or him that the police swarmed 1994, about 21-25 skaters the place. My car was still descended on the place after there, and I knew the cop got some demo at the pit (W.C. a good look at me, so I rode in Handy park, if it was still his trunk back to the post there it'd be on this list). office. He yelled back to me Such a rad session, but I nothat every other skater was ticed more and more cop cars lined up on the curb getting pulling up to the park just yelled at, and that cops were up the street. 7 or 8 cars everywhere. suddenly flipped on their

They stopped him and talked to him for a minute while I was still in the trunk, and I even heard a radio call back saying my Dad's name, yep they were running my plates, along with everyone else's. They let Keith drive on, we waited about an hour and he dropped me off at my car, I hopped in

and drove off. Turns out they let all the other skaters go after much screaming and threats, but I was the only one that got away! The old post office is now a law school with it's own police force, but there are still windows to hit it quick.

MLK Monument I've been skating this since I was 15, we'd ride the bus down poplar and skate downtown all day. Downtown was a ghost town back then. It's the most unique spot in Memphis to this day, and it's been shredded by people from all over the world. But no one has quite killed it like Dan Drehobl, Think tour 1995. We'd never seen anything like him, he hit trick after trick from every angle with a cig in his mouth the whole time. He taught us how to really skate that thing, I'll never forget that day.

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female skateboarding in europe Skateboarding rules all over the world, but some people don't really have it as good as we do here in America. We often complain not enough parks, too many crap companies, bad designs, no flow, rough finish, corporations, money money money, blown out hips but really, what if we didn't have the variety and the access to skateparks and plethora of skateboard companies and media? Then i guess we'd all be living in Europe!

So I got the idea to do this article because I had seen an interview with a girl named Pauliana Laffabrier and the main picture was a super stylish layback properly done with the thumb out - as seen in the article header. Needless to say, I was instantly stoked and got to thinking that we don't really hear that much about Europe, unless

you subscribe to Confusion magazine which pretty much is on the forefront of anything and everything happening in Europe. But even then, seeing females that skateboard is scarce. So I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn more about the skateboarding culture as seen from a woman's eye in Europe.

The easiest way to do this since I can't pick up and fly to Europe and check out the scene myself, was to start a group on facebook and add a few people from Europe to post questions and start a discussion to get information based on their experiences.

Starting with Pauliana from France and a couple of other girls I found on the friend list of Jonathan, Confusion guru in Germany.

I wrote about my interest in writing a story and asked them to add any females they knew that skateboard from all over Europe. After a couple of days, I had nearly 40 members! With female skateboarders ranging from young to older - all experience levels and styles.

Melanie Fischer from Germany was probably the newest to skateboarding with two and a half years experience. Then with Begona Cortes from Spain who has been skating for 19 years! Needless to say I was excited to have a good variety in the group. Almost all of them I had not heard of, until Evelien Bouilliart from Belguim joined. Okay, I have heard of her, and I know she shreds! So it was really cool to find all these girls and women out ripping

and doing it with limited resources across the sea.

The group consisted of females from all over Europe - Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany. Their stories were pretty similar - I felt like I could relate somewhat and understand from where they were coming. Although I found myself feeling down about the lack of places to skate - or the lack of transition - as most parks there are designed after street features. However, their response was “skate everything!â€? And I felt that I can kind of relate, it felt like skateboarding in a small town where the next park is an hour away‌

Straight off the cover. Franziska b.side air Photo by Fred Ferand

Smith. Hilary Pearce Photo by Jenna Selby

I also knew that skateboarding would be a lot different experience for me if I found myself living in Europe. And when Franziska Stolz from Switzerland talks about skating in 20째 F cold INSIDE where the vert ramp is located sometimes even 0째 F! -- I did not envy her at all. It seems like the conditions in Switzerland are pretty harsh. With cold and rainy weather and the only thing near her to skate is an indoor vert ramp that she describes as a small transition and weak framework - as much as I wish I was living somewhere else, I have to appreciate that I'm not in her situation. She says however if another town gets a better vert ramp, she would be willing to move!

What I also learned from the group is that there is not much support for females in skateboarding and there are only a couple of groups led by women out and about

holding contests and exposing them to it.

Most discovered skateboarding like any other person through an older brother, a skateboard lying around and a curiosity to try it out, a friend, etc... and much like America, the contests are not representative of female skateboarding in general. Often contests (when enough girls show up to have one) are one division for females. So as Franziska says that means an eight year old showing up will skate against a skateboarder like her who has been skateboarding for 16 years. Something that has been an issue here as well, however, it seems like contests in the U.S. are catching on representing the diversity of female skaters in this country. Prize money is nearly non-existent compared to the males competing, as it also is in America.

There are a few "advocacy groups" to help attract new girls into skateboarding and very few companies that are run by females and support them. Jenna Selby from England organizes contests and takes girls on tour around Europe and runs a skateboard company called “Rogue Skateboardsâ€?. There is also Cheer Skateboards( owned by Sabrina GĂśggel) , SMT (Suck My Trucks), and Chick Team who are promoting healthy roll models for females in skateboarding. Most females in the group felt a lack of support from the industry in general and perhaps invisible to their male counterparts. While other's feel fond of their male crew. So again, like America- women must take things into their own hands if we want proper representation and the respect from the industry and our fellow skateboarders.

So what seems to be the biggest challenge though is access to public skateparks - and on top of that, quality public skateparks.

In the past couple of years, it seems like there is more construction companies and crews that are building their own parks from what I can tell about the media coming out of Europe. There are new DIY spots popping all the time. Sometimes I think there are more DIY and street spots than public skateparks - but I could be completely wrong. I think the influence of places like Burnside and other well known American DIY spots are serving as inspiration to take skate spots into their own hands. Out of the countries we discussed, Spain was mentioned to be the paradise for French people as Pauliana

says, where she can skate more ramps and bowls. Traveling between countries is a bit of a necessity due to the lack of variety and for contests which are also very scarce.

Some have even traveled to America for skateboarding. As Anna Kruse (from Germany) says the skate tours with Sabrina Goggel and a group of girls were the best times during her years. Franziska traveled to Colorado Springs just last year for the Rocky Mountain Challenge to compete in the vert contest and has plans to come back this year - and add California to her list.

Helena Long Photo by Jenna Selby

Ianire Elorriaga back d.

Photo by Alex Braza

It also became evident to me that the media portrays maybe the best of our experiences here. I guess in a way it is skateboarder paradise - I know we definitely have more access to anything skateboarding related - thanks to networking abilities on facebook and the abundance of skateboard companies and thanks to having a drive to travel so even people stuck in Mississippi can experience the sunshine and perfect bowls we see in America’s “paradises� like Colorado or California. And maybe

not so much are the harsh winters of the Midwest or northeast, the constant rain of the northwest and the scarce parks in various regions throughout the country communicated outside of our borders. So really they only get to see the same things I see on a daily basis searching for distractions from work - the best of the best that makes you feel like you are going to rip the hardest you have ever ripped in your life the next time you get to skate.

I asked about their local legends, the roll models of their country listing names I have not heard. But it definitely inspired me to find out more. One was Steffi Weiss, as Sabrina Göggel describes “Our female legend national in Germany is definitely Steffi Weiss, she was a pioneer for a lot of girls these days in a dominant men world....my personal favorite (no role model, that sucks) is was and will be always the Queen Elissa Steamer - later also Alexis Sablone and meanwhile also Marissa del Santo.” Several of the other girls also expressed admiration for Queen Elissa Steamer, Vanessa Torres, Mimi Knoop, Cara Beth Burnside and some of the newer rippers - Nora Vasconcellos and Lizzie Armanto. Some of the members also listed other members of the group as legends Sabrina Göggel and Ianire Elorriaga.

So while Europe might seem light years away - sometimes beyond our reach - due to constraints with money or time off to make a 22 hour flight into another world - the fact is - we’re all the same - all searching daily to fulfill that urge to pick up our boards - and roll around - whether it’s in the street - in a park - or at a spot we built with our friends - the language of skateboarding is universal - even with a million gallons of water between you and me. So even if you say “j'aime le skate” or “i liäbä Skateboarding” - “Eu amo skate “ - the message is universal - I love skateboarding!

I want to give extra special thanks to everyone in the group that gave input, offered photos and expression for the j’aime of skateboarding (in no particular order J ): Franziska Stolz (Switzerland), Smt Suckmytrucks (Germany), Anna Kruse (Germany), Sabrina Göggel (, Lisa Jacob (France), Didi Da (Germany), Evelien Bouillart (Belgium), Katta Sterner (Sweden), Begoña Cortés (Spain), Pauliana Laffabrier (France), Melanie Fischer (Germany), Ianire Elorriaga (Spain), Anna Kruse (Germany), Gabriela Schumann (Portugal) - come to America visit some Posse. Photo by Stephan Scheunig time!!

Lynn D. Photo by Yvonne Labedzki

For more European skateboarding companies and websites representing females, check out: http://nolimitskate.blogspot.com/ (Sweden) http://www.cheers-skateboards.de/ (Germany) http://suckmytrucks.de/ (Germany) http://rogueskateboards.co.uk/ (United Kingdom) http://cooler.mpora.com/ http://chickteam.tumblr.com/

Artist Spotlight:

Lindsey Rowland

Without Lindsey Rowland, Luchaskate wouldn’t exist.

She is the primary photographer for the magazine. She designed both luchaskate t-shirts.

She even screened all the

original luchaskate t-shirts (good luck finding one of those, the screen is no more). She took the promo pics and cover shot of the Common Criminals book.

Find Lindseydoesthis on various Social media sites for mor info.

While her photography has been featured in the mag in the past, the first issue of this year seems as good a time as any to focus on her fine art work.

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