Michael Cirelli started skateboarding at the age of 8 years old and picked up a film camera at 16 to document and photograph his friends skateboarding through out the streets and on backyard ramps in Conneticut.
37 years later, photographing and filming skateboarding throughout the East Coast has become a lifelong passion. The culture of skateboarding has evolved and grown over the years, bring more popularity and notoriety as it recently appeared in the Olympics.
At the very core, skateboarding is at its purest forms in local cities throughout the USA. Michael Cirelli has spent countless years photographing in Boston, Hartford, CT, Manchester, NH, Philladelphia and New York City. In that time, Cirelli has also collaborated with companies such as Red Bull, Nike SB, DVS shoes, Venture trucks, Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, Thrasher Magazine and countless zines.
