Patrick O’Dell is a photographer, filmmaker and skateboarder whose work has had a lasting influence on skate culture. He began skating at an early age and soon merged that passion with photography, developing a documentary-style approach that captured the personalities, places, and people that defined the skateboarding of his era. In 2004, O’Dell started Epicly Later’d, a skateboarding blog that turned into an interview-based documentary series.
Through Epicly Later’d, he profiled the lives and careers of skateboarding’s biggest icons. O’Dell’s retrospective book, also titled Epicly Later’d, marked two decades of documenting downtown New York’s skate and art scenes.