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Helge Tscharn has been documenting the German-European skateboard scene since the early eighties. The subjects could not be more different. Here the skateboarders and their world, there musicians, not on stage, but mostly before and after their performances. Speed and dynamism here, calm or tension there. For Helge Tscharn, this is not a contradiction, he is a skateboard and music photographer. While he has been documenting the German-European skateboard scene since the early eighties and thus showing even the uninitiated why these boards of all things mean the world, he also increasingly turned to music photography in the nineties: superficially pure portraits, they convey at second glance that pop music is a 24-hour event for everyone directly involved.