As a contrast to his 9-5-job as a motiondesigner and illustrator he started taking pictures of the longboard scene around his hometown. The project Faces of Longboarding was born and quickly grew as he started travelling from mountains to molehills, seeing new faces, meeting old friends and taking photos with one of his vintage analog cameras. André was never interested in shiny, well polished action-shots, he prefers to take portraits in a natural, calm way. He takes his time, never uses any flashes, just the skater, the availlable light and a camera, often loaded with some super-grainy black and white film.