taylor nawrocki - backside tailslide gap out - politic skateboards

taylor nawrocki - backside tailslide gap-out - manhattan, new york - 2015
politic skateboards ad, in thrasher magazine, around summer 2016

portfolio update 2016

hi, after many months of template editing, re-scanning, re-editing scans and raw files, i made a major update to my website, the 1st in 5 years! please check it out!!! it's the most work i've ever put online all at once. it's intentionally not made for viewing on small phone screens, since viewing photos really small isn't really a "feature" to me.

allenying.com

stoops magazine - issue 03

i contributed these 2 photos to the latest issue of stoops magazine, issue 03, which came out in march, 2016


spike lamy - bean plant - brooklyn, new york - 2013



dylan perry - backside 180 - manhattan, new york - 2009

taylor nawrocki - layback wallie - 12" x 12" chromogenic prints

hi, i made my first color darkroom prints, and am very excited about them! i shot mostly slide film for years, which is beautiful as well, but these color prints are really something else!

taylor nawrocki - layback wallie - manhattan, new york - 2014

chromogenic print
12" x 12"
edition of 10
signed

they're available from the 43 online store.

this photo was published in stoops magazine issue 01.

eli reed - tws - 2009

around 2011 when i was redoing my portfolio website, i never got the PDFs of some of my favorite articles i had published. it didn’t seem too important, because at the time it still felt like everyone in skateboarding saw the magazines regularly, but i finally photographed them.

transworld skateboarding magazine - october 2009

eli and i shot these photos in 2008. he had already been killing it for years, but was still pretty underground or under the radar as they say, which i think was part of the reason it didn't come out until a year later. we drove out to boston and stayed with his mom and brother for a few days to shoot some photos, and shot some in new york. it's one of my favorites because, to me, every photo was "portfolio" worthy as well as really sick skating, and that combination was hard for me to pull off. eric stricker (RIP) backed eli and did the interview.

frontside noseblunt slide - manhattan, new york
frontside rock - boston, massachussets

switch kickflip - manhattan, new york

nollie frontside crooked grind to fakie nosegrind to forward - boston, massachussets

ollie up, wallie backside lipslide - the bronx, new york

brooklyn article - slap magazine - 2006

around 2011 when i was redoing my portfolio website, i never got the PDFs of some of my favorite articles i had published. it didn’t seem too important, because at the time it still felt like everyone in skateboarding saw the magazines regularly, but i finally photographed them.

slap magazine - december 2006

this was an article idea i had pitched to slap. the concept and brand many of us now know as "brooklyn" was not quite what it is today. it had already started to transform towards what it is now, but it was still unfamiliar and intriguing to many of us. the ideas in the article might even be considered cliche by now.

anyway, i didn't think the article would go through, or end up getting 16 pages, since a lot of these skateboarders were not sponsored by companies that advertised in the magazines, which made it hard for skateboard magazines to give pages to them. but it ended up being one of my favorite articles, with some of my favorite skateboarders who lived in, found spots, and/or skated in brooklyn regularly. jay riggio interviewed all of the skaters and did a lovely job writing the article.

dave caddo - gap to frontside tailslide

brian brown - backside 50-50 gap to cellar door

pat smith - frontside 5-0 grind
max price - feeble stall fakie

dan pensyl - gap to frontside wallride
dustin charlton - switch frontside 360

danny falla - kickflip nose manual
jerry mraz - backside 5-0 grind

bobby puleo - backside nosegrind

james frankhouse - frontside 180

habitat camping skate trip - slap magazine - 2006

around 2011 when i was redoing my portfolio website, i never got the PDFs of some of my favorite articles i had published. it didn’t seem too important, because at the time it still felt like everyone in skateboarding saw the magazines regularly, but i finally photographed them.

slap magazine - october 2006

in june 2006, i had just moved into my apt in brooklyn, and i was asked to go on a skate trip with habitat down the east coast. this was like a huge deal for me. i think we camped in the woods twice, and in people's living rooms the rest of the time. kerry getz brought his xbox and tv and we plugged it into the generator we were using for lighting up skate spots at night. it was pretty weird to have a video game system by the camp fire. i also remember some of them wrapping their t-shirts around sticks and lighting them for torches as we explored the woods.

guru khalsa - frontside crooked grind - raleigh, north carolina

kerry getz - kickflip - raleigh, north carolina

tim o'connor - frontside pop shuv 5-0 grind - raleigh, north carolina
guru khalsa - backside 180 nosegrind revert - raleigh, north carolina

silas baxter-neal - backside tailslide - atlanta, georgia

tim o'connor - ollie, ollie - atlanta, georgia

guru khalsa - nollie crooked grind - atlanta, georgia

silas baxter-neal - nollie backside 180 kickflip - raleigh, north carolina

when i came back from the trip, it was early july, new york summer was in full swing. i rode my bike to pick up the film from the lab, and on the way home got caught up hanging around the city at various events and gatherings. i was carrying all the film from the trip around to all these parties and ended up at sway. it must've been one of my first few times at morrissey night, when it was always a crazy party. i think i even left my bag down at a booth while dancing for a while. i was super sketched out that someone might grab my bag by accident, or fall or sit on it and crease the film, but somehow it all worked out fine. a few months later this 16 page article came out, and it was probably the biggest feature articles i'd shot at the time.

stoops magazine - issue 02

issue 02 of stoops magazine, the all new york city skateboard magazine, came out in november 2015. i helped with photo editing and production, and eby ghafarian handled the creative direction, as well as all the publishing business work, which is most of the work in making a magazine. there was an issue release photo show on nov 13, 2015, at salomon arts in manhattan, new york. below are the photos in stoops issue 02 that i'd shot, some i'd been saving for up to 9 years, waiting for the right place to show them, and in my opinion still hold up.

pick up a hard copy of stoops magazine at stoopsmag.com

josh wilson - frontside 50-50 grind - manhattan, new york - 2014
on the cover of stoops issue 02

rob gonzalez - ollie up, wallie out - manhattan, new york - 2006

jerry mraz - backside noseblunt - queens, new york - 2012

jack curtin - halfcab - the bronx, new york - 2014

ryan barlow - fakie ollie - brooklyn, new york - 2012

brian delatorre - ollie, ollie - manhattan, new york - 2012

clark hassler - backside 50-50 grind pop-out - brooklyn, new york - 2011

dave mitchael - backside tailslide - manhattan, new york - 2008

clint peterson - frontside rock - queens, new york - 2008

jimmy lannon - ollie - manhattan, new york - 2010

aaron herrington - ollie double bar - tws

aaron herrington - ollie - brooklyn, new york - 2015

this photo ran in the november 2015 issue of transworld skateboarding magazine.
it's in an article about the theories of atlantis crew in new york, primarily shot by dave chami, with this photo and a great photo by pep kim.

walker ryan - ollie rail curb - bones bearings

walker ryan - ollie - manhattan, new york - 2015

this was a bones bearings ad recently.
we shot it on may 1, 2015. i remember that because it was the one year anniversary of the static iv/v premiere, which was influential enough to get me psyched to shoot skate photos a bunch more that year, and marked a kind of spring skate fever.