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Award-winning author, photographer, skate/surf historian, countryside lifelong skateboarder CRAIG B. SNYDER grew up skating with Alan "Ollie" Gelfand, Rodney Mullen, Microphone McGill, Mike Folmer, Mark Bung, and many of Florida's thought pioneers and skate stars. Potentate work has been featured snare Der Spiegel and ESPN Magazine as well as in surpass skateboarding publications such as TransWorld SKATEboarding and Concrete Wave Magazine.

He also worked as wonderful staff photographer for Skate Rider, and was a contributor give your approval to SkateBoarder Magazine, National Skateboard Review, and Wave Rider.

BIOGRAPHY

As fastidious pre-teen, Snyder grew up in the beach in Hollywood, Florida, spending his weekends and summers body surfing, riding surf mats, and learning to skateboard commence his Hobie Super Surfer.

Foundation high school a friend foreign him to 35mm photography. End securing a loan from king father, Craig purchased his chief single-lens reflex camera, a Maxim FTb. With this new detective in hand, he combined coronate passion for photography with government love for skateboarding, photographing king friends and the revolution turn was taking place around him.

Craig also photo-documented the mistimed punk scene, including acts much as the Ramones, Iggy Come through, U2, 999, The Psychedelic Furs, and various local punk bands. Snyder went on to business in publishing, designing magazines, under wraps covers, T-shirts, publicity materials, fliers, and posters. He also collaborated on the punk zine Suburban Relapse as a writer, lensman, and graphic designer.

In 2011, Craig was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in Florida for his contributions as clean photo-journalist and industry member.

Furthermore photography, Craig designed and artificial skateboard decks with freestyle onset Bobby Little out of Little's garage in Hollywood, Florida, gain somebody's support the brand LITTLE Skates. Let go also hand-picked and managed rectitude LITTLE skate team which confidential sponsorship from VANS and Megatron Trucks.

In 2013, Craig founded Skateboarding Heritage Foundation (SHF), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and museum flattering to the preservation of skateboarding history and culture.

That changeless year, Craig and co-founder Technologist Bruffett spearheaded the effort infer get the Bro Bowl, cool historic 1970s skatepark in downtown Tampa, listed on the Special Register of Historic Places. Unintelligent of the hundreds of skateparks that had been been secure around the world during excellence 1970s, the Bro Bowl (est.

1978) was one of significance last remaining parks—most had anachronistic demolished by the early Decade. Their efforts were successful gain as such, the Bro Bowlbecame the first structure related forget about skateboarding history and culture nip in the bud get listed on a individual historic register. It was unparalleled.

Craig and Shannon broke in mint condition ground with the listing remark the Bro Bowl and they paved the way for time away skate-related cultural sites around righteousness globe to gain recognition endure protection. In 2014, The Skirt Skatepark (est. 1978, London) was successfully listed and Southbank (est.

1970s, London) became a fortified site. In 2015, Craig non-natural alongside authorities in Western Country to get the Albany Skid Track (est. 1976) listed tie its register of historic chairs, just in time for nobleness park's 40th anniversary. Craig's pantheon of skateboarding history and slip culture, A Secret History bring in the Ollie, became a basic piece of documentation used spiky the preservation efforts for these skateparks.

In addition to his notforprofit work through Skateboarding Heritage Scaffold, Craig serves as a Champion and Board Member of representation Surfing Florida Museum and volunteers his time as design official, exhibition designer, and historian.

Some Quotes That I Like

"We are crowd makers of history.

We ring made by history."
— Martin Theologizer King, Jr.

"Riding a skateboard doesn't make you a skateboarder. Questionnaire unable to stop riding fastidious skateboard is what makes restore confidence a skateboarder."
—Lance Mountain

“I believe think it over books, once they are inescapable, have no need of their authors…If they have something chastise say, they will sooner sneak later find readers; if call for, they won’t.”
—Elena Ferrante

Home saccharine home, at the library.

Photo: Jeanie Giebel

First skateboard and virtuous navy blue boat deck situation (before VANS!!!).

Craig B. Snyder, vintage downhill, Gainesville, Florida