Not available via Jenny’s website. Currently available through Daylight Books or order from your local independent bookstore (if they don’t already have it!).

In Jenny Sampson's follow-up monograph to Skaters (Daylight, 2017) featuring her acclaimed collection of tintype portraits of male and female skateboarders, the American photographer chose to focus exclusively on female skateboarders. Although historically a male-dominated sport, there have always been girls in the skateboarding landscape. By turning her lens on these fearless females in skate parks and at events all over California, Washington and Oregon, Sampson hopes Skater Girls (Daylight, September, 2020) will increase visibility and celebrate these girls and non-binary people, young and older, who have been breaking down this gender wall with their skater girl power.

In her essay Becky Beal, EdD, Professor of Kinesiology, Cal State East Bay, and co-author of Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Shifting Landscape of Urban Youth Sports writes, "Jenny Sampson's collection of portraits encourages us to re-examine our assumptions of who is a skateboarder by acknowledging the variety of gender expressions that are cultivated in and articulated through skateboarding. I find Sampson's photos powerful in their representation of women as complex and confident, and I find them joyful because of the wide-ranging forms of skateboarder identity being supported in these communities. Sampson's collection celebrates skateboarding while simultaneously challenging traditional narratives of 'authenticity,' extending the notion of what it means to be a skateboarder."

Foreword by Becky Beal

Contributions by Cindy Whitehead

daylight books

7 x 9 | 96 pp

B&W photographs throughout

Paper Over Board

US $45.00 | CAN $58.99

ISBN: 9781942084853 W

Please order directly from Daylight Books or check with your local independent bookstore. Skater Girls is not available from Jenny Sampson’s website (unless you order her limited edition deluxe book set).