Jon Rentschler aka. Euro Jon recently released "LOVE", a photo book with the intent of immortalizing the last few months prior to the unskatable remodelization of LOVE Park, the iconic plaza and historic skate spot in Philly - frequented throughout the ages by the likes of Ricky Oyola, Matt Reason, Stevie Williams or Josh Kalis, just to name some of the most obvious. Logically, timeline-wise, that project coincides with the time period around which Brian Panebianco was also crafting his own time capsule of the spot's destruction, just in video form, with "Sabotage 5"; but without further digression, let's let Jon himself talk, and invite us to his upcoming photo show in Tokyo, Japan, the opening of which is on this 18th of October, doors at seven P.M.!
Let's just be honest, here: the majority of books dedicated to skateboarding are rarely more than marketing tools, dedicated to make sure you consume how you are supposed to… Actually independent projects are rare, simply because putting a book together is one hell of a mission! That did not stop young Jonathan Rentschler, that some of you might know from his frequent visits to Europe. And he documented with a photo camera the past three years of LOVE park, to the very last sessions in the middle of its ruins, to turn it all into a book, a real one. One book you can –and should– already pre-order, here… Until it actually drops, here a little visual and animated teaser Jon filmed on Super 8…
