Travis Dove
b.
1981From:
Concord, NCBased:
Athens, OHPosition:
Freelance photographerEducation:
BA, Communications, Wake Forest Unversity, 2004 / MA, Visual communications, Ohio University, 2008Background:
Travis Dove began his career by knocking repeatedly on the door of his local newspaper. A couple of internships later he returned to school and was named the 2007 College Photographer of the Year by the Missouri School of Journalism. World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Association and the White House News Photographers Association have also recognized his work. He will be shooting for The Boston Globe in the summer of 2008 before moving on to an internship with National Geographic Magazine in the fall. By 2009 he will be right back where he began ... knocking on doors.
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Work by Travis Dove
#1 | Skate Rats
Less than 500 people live in the town of Rutland, OH, but hundreds more migrate in and out of its borders every year to visit one 88-acre farm called Skatopia. Aside from being one of the most well known backyard skate parks in the world, Skatopia is a somewhat warped version of J.M. Barrie's Neverland, with people of all ages coming to "experience" the fringe culture that has developed there, fueled by binge drinking, light drug use, casual sex, and rampant destruction of cars or property of any kind. Although "88 acres of anarchy" is the skate park slogan, it functions more like a cooperative dictatorship, according to farm owner, Brewce Martin. The gates are open all of the time as people generally filter in and out at their own will. Some camp out for a weekend, others build cabins from scraps and stay for a year; just about everyone raises hell.