Tino Razo started skateboarding at age 5 in with his brothers in Bennington, VT. He moved to New York as a teenager, and lived there for sixteen years. He has participated in group shows that have taken him to Japan and Europe. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he skates every day and hangs out with his dog, Chunk

“Party in the Back is a portrait of a distinctly West Coast vibescape — there’s a dusky Pacific feel to these images of skaters hopping chain-link gates, of keep-out signs and watchful dogs, of the sensual curve of empty pools. There are skaters, faces frozen in profound focus or pure joy, defying gravity, riding the sides, rising above the edges. Razo captures the thrill of making a place yours for a time and the melancholy of letting it go." - Boston Globe

Tino Razo started skateboarding at age 5 in with his brothers in Bennington, VT. He moved to New York as a teenager, and lived there for sixteen years. He has participated in group shows that have taken him to Japan and Europe. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he skates every day and hangs out with his dog, Chunk

“Party in the Back is a portrait of a distinctly West Coast vibescape — there’s a dusky Pacific feel to these images of skaters hopping chain-link gates, of keep-out signs and watchful dogs, of the sensual curve of empty pools. There are skaters, faces frozen in profound focus or pure joy, defying gravity, riding the sides, rising above the edges. Razo captures the thrill of making a place yours for a time and the melancholy of letting it go." - Boston Globe

Tino Razo started skateboarding at age 5 in with his brothers in Bennington, VT. He moved to New York as a teenager, and lived there for sixteen years. He has participated in group shows that have taken him to Japan and Europe. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he skates every day and hangs out with his dog, Chunk

“Party in the Back is a portrait of a distinctly West Coast vibescape — there’s a dusky Pacific feel to these images of skaters hopping chain-link gates, of keep-out signs and watchful dogs, of the sensual curve of empty pools. There are skaters, faces frozen in profound focus or pure joy, defying gravity, riding the sides, rising above the edges. Razo captures the thrill of making a place yours for a time and the melancholy of letting it go." - Boston Globe