Lance Dawes

Lance Dawes is an American skateboarder, photographer, writer and studio director, and the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Slap Magazine. He was raised in Washington, DC, where he grew up in the DC punk scene of the 1980s, and in his late teens he became a sponsored skateboarder for Dogtown, Vans and Independent Trucks. He moved to San Francisco to study film at the University of San Francisco, and while in school worked as a darkroom technician and stat operator at Thrasher Magazine from October 1990 to January 1992, documenting the San Francisco skate scene of the early 1990s. He founded Slap with High Speed Productions in January 1992 and is its co-founder and original editor.