Lance Dawes

Lance Dawes is an American skateboarder, photographer, writer, studio director, co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Slap Magazine.

Skateboarding and photography Dawes was raised in Washington DC., where he grew up in the DC punk scene of the 1980s. In his late teens, Dawes became a sponsored skateboarder for Dogtown, Vans and Independent Trucks. Dawes documented the San Francisco skate scene of the early 1990s. Mark Whiteley was named editor-in-chief after Dawes.