The main character of Bumper, a new skateboarding book by DC-based photographer owenbasher, isn’t one of the various pals he snaps mid-nosegrind, backspin, or pop shove-it. Although Basher and co. make it all the way across the Atlantic over the course of hundreds of pics, Washington DC’s Freedom Plaza bookends and dominates the conversation, with good reason.⁠ ⁠ “People have been skating at the Plaza for 30, 40 years,” Basher says the week after Bumper’s release. “It’s this soup of generations that goes by and there’s this unspoken set of rules. You know you’re hanging out on hallowed ground.”⁠ ⁠ Photographed over the course of three years, Bumper captures a slice of post-pandemic skateboarding around DC and beyond, from London hotspot Southbank to subterranean Metro stations. “Eventually it got to a point where I had 200 or 300 photos and I was like, this is way bigger than a zine,” Basher explains. “Eventually I met John and Zack who do shininglifepress, and they publish a lot of ha...