MARCEL WURM | CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Inside
the Process.
Skateboarding creates the surface. I decide whether it holds an image.
Sessions is an ongoing photographic project begun in 2007 and continued since my return to skateboarding in 2025.
01 / THE SOURCE
Traces of use.
Tricks and repetition leave scratches, abrasion and worn graphics—marks never intended to form an image. Connected to skateboarding since 1988, I read them as traces of movement and commitment.
A different
way of seeing.
I photograph selected boards on 4×5-inch film, leaving the marks untouched and keeping the colours close to the original. The composition begins with framing.
Looking closer.
After laboratory development, I work with scans, test crops and printed studies. Some compositions convince me immediately; others need time—or lose their effect.
04 / STILL IN DEVELOPMENT
Not yet
the final image.
Taken out of the context of skateboarding, the final images are abstract compositions in their own right. They arise from chance and precise observation. At most, one work can be created from a single board. Sometimes, not even one.
These photographs document the process, not the finished artworks.
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as it develops
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