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Emphas.is: Kitintale by Yann Gross (Archive)

Yann is raising funds for his photography project Kitintale. In order to receive contributions, this project must be funded in full by August 29th, 2011. To help fund the project, see http://www.emphas.is/web/guest/discov... In Uganda, nobody knows about skateboarding as soon as we leave the slum area of Kitintale. Thirty years after its worldwide expansions, the skateboarding culture appeared in Uganda. As a skateboarder myself, I started to document the birth of this subculture since the early beginning and will follow its expansion, influenced by the Ugandan daily life context and African culture. For the last few years I have been going back to Uganda for two months every year to document the growing scene. This subculture grows every year and the idea of the project is to document the evolution in the next decade. To make this possible and support the youngsters to develop their dream, I'm looking for funds to rebuild a halfpipe. Most of the money collected from publication was used to repair and reconstruct the skatepark in Uganda, but unfortunately this wasn't sufficient. After the first publications of my series, their playground was near to become a zoo for the western media industry. We noticed that our publications brought more journalists instead of support. Unfortunately, people are interested to show their story but not to install a long term relationship. So, I also want to teach the skaters to record their history and involve them in the creative process (making short films and photos). The skaters need to learn how to deal with this kind of situation in order to be able to take advantage of it. Yann Gross' (29) work mostly focuses on identities issues and visual story-telling. In 2008, he was awarded with the Photo Espana Descubrimientos Prize and nominated as one of the 13 artists of the year by American Photo magazine. Since then, his work has been shown and published internationally.