Carl usually skated at the park in Wakefield most weekends in the winter in the mid nineties and would have made the move from Flip Skateboards to Stereo at this point.

Carl and I would probably have spoken briefly on the phone before I drove from the Midlands to West Yorkshire on a Saturday to meet him. Hardly anyone had email at the time yet and mobile phones were still rare.

At the time I was working for Transworld Skateboarding Magazine and they would have sent me some film to encourage me to shoot more. They also allowed me to send the unprocessed and therefore unseen film back to them in California as well.

Imagine my surprise when this picture, which I wouldn’t have seen at all, turned up as Carl’s first DC shoe advert?

This photograph was literally in every skateboard magazine across the world a month after I had shot it in a dingy warehouse in the north of England.