noun - over·view - \ˈō-vər-ˌvyü\
a general survey
“I certainly don’t think that we will earn much money on this, but at least it will allow us to take pictures for free.” - Arvid Viktor Hasselblad
The early stereotypes of snowboarding included "lazy", "grungy", "punk", "stoners", "troublemakers", and numerous others, many of which are associated with skateboarding and surfing as well. However, these stereotypes may be considered "out of style". Snowboarding has become a sport that encompasses a very diverse international based crowd and fanbase of many millions, so much so that it is no longer possible to stereotype such a large community. Reasons for these dying stereotypes include how mainstream and popular the sport has become, with the shock factor of snowboarding's quick take off on the slopes wearing off. - Wikipedia
The following images were made to be featured in an article for The Snowboarders Journal Issue 19.1, the article can be found in its entirety here.
Instant film was used where it was undesirable to have to wait for a roll of conventional film to be finished and processed, e.g., documenting evidence in law enforcement, in health care and scientific applications, and producing photographs for passports and other identity documents, or simply for snapshots to be seen immediately.
Summer 2020
GENERAL VIOLENCE CONFERENCE 2023
1:00 NARC
1:20 TOTAL CEREAL
1:40 RIBBONS
2:00 PORTRAITS
2:20 FATHER’S MILK
2:40 RISE AND STRIKE
3:00 GENERATION WHY
3:20 ANONOYMOUS
3:40 THE FOILIES
4:00 FUCKSKIN
4:20 SOCIAL STIGMA
4:40 THREAR
5:00 BEESECHURGER
5:20 S.U.R.G.E
5:40 NO MA’AM
6:00 SNUFF TAPE
6:20 HUNGRY ASS YOUTH
6:40 SNAKE EYEZ
7:00 WRETCHED SELF
7:20 DUMPSTER BURNER
7:40 LIFE’S TORMENT
8:00 BRIDGE DWELLER
8:20 BUMMER
8:40 RAT KING
9:00 DISEASE
9:30 WAKE OF HUMANITY
10:00 CHOKE
10:30 RANK AND VILE
11:00 CANCER CHRIST
B/W vs. Color, Film vs. Digital, Goofy vs. Regular in the Land of the Rising Sun.
A collaborative project with Joshua Poehlein.
Please visit www.premiumzone.us to experience this project in full.
noun - peo·ple - \ˈpē-pəl\
human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest
noun - place - \ˈplās\
a particular position or point in space
I was determined to create images that looked like what it feels like to ride with your friends on a stormy, low vis day at Baker. I wanted grainy, blurry, black and white images of the locals riding from open to close because they love to. Because they worked all summer so they don’t have to all winter. I wanted something I could share with anyone, anywhere that could convey the joy of snowboarding with people you love.
All photographs are excerpts from the coffee table book of the same name.
We crashed vans in snowstorms in the mountains of Colorado,
We snuck Pete into bars after the spotless jaws of Southern California snatched his wallett,
We sang karaoke to mass applause without crowds knowing most were veteran performers,
We slept in empty boiler rooms of mountain compounds vacant but not silent,
We played free pool on a broken table in that awful Grateful Dead bar,
We awoke earliest simply to go bowling,
When does the van leave next?
I joined Chris Acker and the Growing Boys as well as Nick Shoulders and Okay Crawdad for a leg of their tour back before the whole pandemic swallowed up and held down the entire concept of live music and life on the road.
We travelled around the Pacific Northwest; them playing bars, festivals, campground and house shows; me drinking, laughing, watching and shooting.
At one point Grant (bass player extraordinaire and all around blunt human being) asked “Why are you here?”.
Just to make photographs.
When I was first invited to participate in Canoe Journey with the Lummi Nation Tribe I went home and quit two jobs on the spot. The next day I was in the canoe and so began a five hundred mile paddle from the Lummi shore in Washington State to Bella Bella, BC in Heiltsuk Nation.
This was one of the most important decisions I have ever made in my life.
We set out upon the road not knowing where we would go or for how long. The main concept was to see as many of the places across this country and all the land in between. Essentially we just needed to find a new place to live, and what better way than to drive 17,000 miles around the country for four and a half months?
Like all those wonderful American family road trips that have been immortalized through grainy super 8 and shaky VHS I decided to document the entire thing in the most simple form possible; disposable cameras.