Debris

Debris is a staple-bound paperback of black-and-white photographs by Ari Marcopoulos, published in 2009 as a special edition of Purple Fashion Magazine, co-published with Studio Zero.

The book gathers roughly sixty unpaginated pages of black-and-white photographs of skateboarders, street scenes, and portraits of friends, printed on glossy pictorial card covers.

Marcopoulos, born in Amsterdam in 1957 and based in New York, has photographed hip-hop, skateboarding, and snowboarding subcultures since the 1980s and published more than 200 books and zines. His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1, and Debris is one of several small books he made for Purple magazine's imprint.