This month London hosted Roll On London, one of many greatest roller-skating occasions within the European calendar. Since stumbling throughout ‘jam’ skaters at his native park in 2021, the photographer Roland Ramanan has embedded himself within the scene, following fans to numerous venues, their houses and Barcelona.
His undertaking has a fast-growing Instagram account, the place Ramanan interviews skaters and shares their portraits. For the reason that resurgence of roller-skating in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, its recognition has boomed. In 2022, Ramanan lastly gave in to the inevitable and, on the age of 56, took up roller-skating
