Two weeks ago, by way of introduction to my interview with 2014 AVN Performer of the Year Bonnie Rotton, I wrote about the similarities between porn and skateboarding. There is a lot of them. And if there is one person who embodies those overlapping qualities it is Van Styles, everyone’s favorite T&A photographer.
With nearly 300,000 followers on Instagram, Styles has become known as the go-to photographer for street-wear brands trying to recreate what your girlfriend (if she’s hot) looks like in your clothes. What many of his fans fail to realize is that, before he started taking the sexy, naturally lit photos that he’s known for, he was the director of more than 100 porno films, including classics like Anaconda Mama, Black Trash, Lil Jon & the Eastide Boyz: American Sex Series, Poon-Tang Clan and Every Rose Has Its Thorn. Before that, he was a skateboarder who used to film his friends for various video pojects. The marriage of the two worlds occurred for Van when he was teaching skate lessons to pornographer Christian Mann’s sons. Next thing he knew, Van was making the first skateboarding porno, Skate Trixxx, and watching people fuck on a half-pipe.
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I ran into Van last month at Supreme skate shop in LA and decided to sit him down around the corner at Swingers to ask him about porn, skateboarding, semen, and cocaine-filled buttholes.
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