Tony Hawk Editor & Author

Amir Zaki is an artist based in Southern California. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999, since which time he has regularly exhibited his photographs and videos both nationally and internationally, including in solo shows in Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. His work is held in numerous public and private collections across the United States, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has previously published two monographs, VLHV (2003) and Eleven Minus One (2010), featured in the anthologies of contemporary photography Vitamin Ph (2006), Photography is Magic (2015) and Both Sides of Sunset (2015), and contributed to the essays in Words Without Pictures (2010). Tony Hawk is an American professional skateboarder and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse. He was the National Skateboard Association's world champion for 12 consecutive years. One of the most influential pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding, in 1999 he became the first skater to land a '900' - a trick involving the completion of two-and-a-half mid-air revolutions on a skateboard. In 2002 he established the Tony Hawk Foundation, which helps to build skate parks in underprivileged areas. Peter Zellner is an architect based in Los Angeles. He has designed numerous notable public and private art galleries in Los Angeles and New York, and has curated exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Riverside, California. He is a faculty member at the School of Architecture of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and in 2016 he founded the Free School of Architecture, a non-profit organization committed to the free exploration and exchange of ideas in and around architecture. He is the author of several essays and books, including Pacific Edge (1998) and Hybrid Space (1999).