Rune Glifberg: Legendary Vert Skater turned Analog Photographer

We went on a morning-photo-stroll through Milan with Rune Glifberg, to go check out a local photo book store, snap a few analog photos and find out about his personal journey in photography along the way. Rune makes the best use of his time on the road with Monster Energy by getting up earlier than everybody else and experiencing the city through the lens of his Leica, Hasselblad & Mamiya as well as shooting his own style of skate imagery alongside the professional skate photographers and filmers on the session. Check out Rune's portfolio feature from Issue 52 on our website now!
Filmed & edited by Felix Adler
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[@ShawnPBruce]

I’m ready to preorder Rune’s book right now. Let’s do it. Love his perspective.

[@Merjia]

Loved hearing his perspective, I love his shots, and totally agree with the more behind the scenes shooting of what goes into the skate shoot that you don't see in the magazines and websites.

[@jamesmeasom6790]

The X-Pan photos were super nice, like Rune said it’s such a different process shooting on one of those, Composition takes priority to make the most of that wide framing.
Book concept wise there’s definitely something in those ‘behind the scenes’ moments that he captures, that’s the sort of project you could build up a great body of varied work over a couple of years on various trips around the world and cover so many different people. It’s interesting see the perspective of how the filmer is filming a clip in the wider scene or the whole ‘vanlife’ lifestyle of trips that you don’t always get to see as an outsider.

[@wrongviewer]

Something akin to the Jeff Bridge's Widelux book, except for skating would be amazing.

[@_....J........................]

Keep shooting Rune, Let other artists edit your work and ask them what they think your work is about. The work is the work is the work. Eventually you will know what your work is about, what your desires are, what your aesthetics are - once you are self-reflexively exploring this, then making a book will have its purpose - a place for the work to live.

[@wearetrackclub]

Really cool to hear his perspective! Great shots 🙌

[@berg4mot]

what a cool guy!

[@szabi_nagy]

loved this video

[@Laz3r2k]

Legend!

[@ryanrowe1975]

Legend

[@anils.rkumar6551]

Thats a Cool Video ,He is soo Nice and charming

[@mato_2000]

That William Eggleston book (@12.36) would suite him fine! Eggleston took basicly one picture of the things he photographed. It was either a hit or miss, no selections. Feel like Rune would be inspired by that :)

[@stevetrapped2823]

Bit of an old wives tale, quite a few examples of Egglestone taking different photos of the same subject

[@wandilemsomi]

What a G :-)

[@stayuntilforever]

I wish I had his money. These cameras are VERY expensive and my dream cameras but they cost more than a few used cars

[@aawonnewton]

Skateboarding 🤝 Photography

[@BukezFinezt]

I wanted to see the shots he took in this clip though :D

[@WilliamBrunson-pr8ff]

I aspire to be that man bro

[@kirinjohnson9199]

shit i would buy a book

[@elangeldelamusica]

stop it already

[@Old-School-Liberal]

Camera guy needs a gimble too shaky can’t watch

[@OBFLife]

Pictures taken with a Leica all look identical. The camera is the star of the show. Not the photographer. If you go on flickr and look at photos only taken on Leica film cameras, they could all be by the same photographer.

[@CallMeEsteban]

If you have no taste just say that

[@OBFLife]

@@CallMeEstebanOpposite. I like variety. They're trendy so of course you'll ride dick, but do what I said above and you'll see it. The camera is the star, not the photographer. That's why they're $2500. You're buying the opportunity to contribute to that particular identical look.

[@OBFLife]

@@CallMeEsteban If your definition of taste is dickriding a trendy camera that's only capable of producing one look and has been producing that same look since Barnack invented it, then I guess not. You're paying thousands of dollars to contribute to the "Leica body of work." Get a camera with some soul.