Photographer Noah Abrams traveled to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009 to document the emerging skateboarding scene there. The results are (frankly) incredible:
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2 Comments
To be honest that make me really happy to see.
This work is awesome. Such a great story. I've seen the skateboarding pictures in so many magazines and these blow them away. No stylists, no labels, no superstars.
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