Girls Can't Skate - Jordana Btp
Girls Can’t Skate spotlights an all-female and non-binary skateboarding community in New York City. By exploring these women’s shared passion and resilience, it celebrates female empowerment in contrast to the machismo culture and normalized violence against women that plagues much of the world. These women are challenging barriers of the traditionally male-dominated sport at a historic moment for skateboarding, which will be part of the next Olympic Games.
The Girls Can’t Skate project began before the COVID-19 pandemic, during lockdown, the photographs shown below were created via FaceTime.
Jordana Btp is a freelance documentary photographer and storyteller based in New York.
Her work focusses on women's issues, gender inequality, and contemporary youth subcultures, including her latest project, Girls Can't Skate, about the all-female skateboarding community in New York City. Having spent her whole life in Mexico, where violence against women and machismo culture is normalized, she wants to amplify non-binary and women's voices.
Jordana Btp is a graduate of ICP's Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism One-Year Certificate Program and spent years working as a professional photographer in Mexico City.
Below is a selection of Jordana’s pre-COVID Girls Can’t Skate photographs. Find out more about this body of work and others on her website.
