Photo Archive: Alex Kyourkiev
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We delve into the HUCK archives to revisit our feature on Alex Kyourkiev who fostered a new skate culture in his native Bulgaria.
Says Kyourkiev: "It was a tenet of communism that individual tradesmen holidayed together en masse. A few resorts had foreign tourists and I remember seeing a skateboard there for the first time - it seemed amazing fun. So when I was working on the Sunday market stall, selling imported “original” heavy metal badges and patches at the age of sixteen, I was offered a proper skateboard in exchange for three heavy metal badges. Under the communists it was impossible to get hold of a skateboard or anything that symbolised the Western way of life. I took his arm off for it.”
Check out the full interview in HUCK#019 in our Digital Archive.
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Alex Kyourkiev (text) by Ed Andrews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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