For almost three years Sebastian Denz has been traveling across Europe to shoot a series of 3D photographs with more than 20 members of the carhartt skateboard team. The result of his work is a series of spatial photographs in a quality never seen before. For his project SKATEBOARDING.3D, Denz developed a unique 8 x 10 inch large-format-stereo-apparatus, that his friend and custom camera specialist Dr. Kurt Gilde built for him. His exhibitions show some of the professional skaters in the ‘real hyper-reality’ of life-sized high-resolution 3D-images.

SKATEBOARDING.3D is about space in a phenomenological sense and about human beings creating their own construction of reality within these spaces. “With the example of skateboarding-culture I bring up for discussion a hybrid space that is in between virtual and real – a ‘Postvirtual Space’.” (Sebastian Denz)

With his work SKATEBOARDING.3D, Sebastian Denz won the 20th International BFF Promotion Award 2008. The work was also presented at the Visual Gallery at Photokina in 2008, at SCOPE New York and Madrid Foto artfair and in several exhibitions. The book SKATEBOARDING.3D is available worldwide. It was “Nominated 2010” for the German Photo Book Award, won the DDC Award (GG10) “Gold Medal” and is nominated for the “Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011”. Buy book Skateboarding 3D.