Tags: blitzkrieg, coney island, dominik wagner, in depth, james perez, josh diaz, kyle, lucia, nyc, shawn engler, sophie, suicide circus
Dominik was and will always be a welcome addition the bread basket of bladers in NYC. Whether he is in the Bronx getting evicted with Shardy by his landlord, blading uptown with Nigel, or being a dirt bag in Bed-Stuy with Josh and myself, Dominik will always be missed in NYC. Okay, enough with the crying brown nose bullshit. Dominik came through NYC like a Blitzkrieg. After his eviction from Shardy's domicile he had the pleasure of finding a pad close to Josh and I with two very strange room mates. One of which who apparently liked to bring home random foreigners to watch movies or trash the apartment with. Haha! So when I had a room available in my place I told him to get the fuck out of there. That was the beginning of our little German experience. Always wielding some sort of point and shoot camera and sunglasses, Dominik is always down to blade or hang. What a funny "super hero" to have around. Thanks for coming through to teach us the ways of the Germans (Bier), introducing us to Sophie and Lucia – sexy German ladies – and just being the one we miss. Dominik "Fucking" Wagner, the German Champion of NYC! Wahoooo!
Introduction by Shawn Engler
Photos and captions by Dominik Wagner
During my last year at photography school I discovered the benefits and importance between my photographic work and the medium of a book! This is my first book in the progress of editing. A teacher once told me to edit a book like a song!
This is one of the few pictures that turned out good from my trip to Las Vegas in 2009. This trip was the one I started to capture skating from my point of view.
Well, you probably can't tell but this is my dear friend Gabriel Hyden in Barcelona during the time we started to film for the Ground Control video. I really like how this shot turned out!
This is one of my favorite portraits that I shot. It's part of a project I did in Berlin about teenagers.
This shot is from my first trip to New York City and it pretty much just shows a session at Coney Island! During this particular trip I was able to apply for an internship at a very good photo studio in NYC. I got the job and moved to New York for a couple of months.
Berlin clubbing at its finest! Before I left for New York, Jojo and me started a little party marathon. This is the Suicide Circus Sunday morning at 10 am!
The guy I worked for in New York is pretty famous for his close-up portraits of all kind of celebrities. Every time before the shoot started we made these polaroid test shots to check the background color.
Not even two weeks after I moved into my first apartment in Brooklyn, a girl got shot in my street! This is a screen shot of footage I found on the internet. A friend of mine who was visiting me walked by this corner two minutes later. It still freaks me out it could have been him!
Who you gonna call?! I walked by the Ghost Busters station every day on my way to work. It still took my like five weeks to realize what it was... So out of this world!
I drove this van in the front every day for more than six months. It was mostly packed to the fullest. And I didn't have a valid drivers license!
One of the few "real" skate shots I took in NYC. Fun fact: The guy in the picture is my dentist.
Some really old and interesting billboard I found in the NYC subway.
After a while I started to take pictures of the people in the subway with my little film snap shoot camera. I get really nervous in these situations because I don't want to get discovered.
Mr. Psycho Clothing Josh Diaz looking like a homeless person on the way home from BCSD 2012!
My crew during one of my last night sessions in NYC!
James Perez getting high! Better look out for that dude, he is New Yorks future!
Hanging in front of my apartment waiting for the BCSD trip to get started. Not even 20 hours later everything got out of control and this guy, Kyle, fell off a roof 30 ft down on a dumpster which basically saved his life!
This was my room mate! We actually just wanted to go out for one shot and one beer, but as usual it was never just one.
What's left: this is the very last picture I took in NYC. The last part of my rent, a cell phone I had to borrow – because I killed mine in the washer – and a Cuban cigar as a big thank you to Mr. Shawn Engler!
I was assisting at both these shoots! The 'National Geographic' shoot was one of my first jobs and the one for 'Time' one of my last...
I love my cameras. I don't use these cameras, it's more like a collecting thing! I found the two cameras to the right in the basement when I moved out of my last apartment in Berlin. They where in this really mysterious box which was full of immigration papers and what not! The other one is from a Chinese flea market.
Bringing it back home: You know these crappy skate parks full of very bad graffiti where you spent most of your childhood at?! This is mine! I like to come back to places where I grew up at!
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dom needs to come back to nyc asap!
This is one of the best things I've seen in a while!!!!! Isn't he supporting chimera recently and also a part-owner? Would love to see some of the things they're making at the chimera factory....
more in depth please:)
Cool and all, but why is this called "In Depth"?
Dude this guy is one of the coolest dudes I met when I was over in Germany for the summer. Met him when I was bumming on the grindhouse tour with their team. Fuckin awesome. Great article and great dude to boot. All the best Domink and hopefully run into you again some day.
I read that twins N.G. It's a great article and Interesting that you worked on the photo for the article.
very cool shots! and nice story
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great shots and great story!