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.

jimmy mcdonald - slap magazine online

foto feature
link
posted online august 2009
shot in brooklyn, new york
in the winter

rotterdam photo contest flags - proof

rotterdam, holland - july 2009
taken from facebook from friends who were there this year, my photo of shuriken shannon from the 2007 rotterdam photo contest, on posters and flags around the city.

rotterdam photo contest flags

rumor has it, this photo of shuriken shannon, from the rotterdam photo contest in 2007, is all over the city of rotterdam(holland) on flags, just like the ones in this photo, for the photo contest going on right now! can't wait to see photos of em!

recent published works - may 22, 2009

ryan harris - ollie - san diego, california - 2008

this was on transworld skateboarding magazine's website for ryan harris' online video checkout.

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quim cardona - backside 180 - brooklyn, new york - 2008

kingpin magazine : skateboarding europa
april 2009 issue 64

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joel meinholz - frontside 180 switch crooked grind transfer - miami, florida - 2008

rasa libre skateboards ad
allenying.com magazine may 2009 issue

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gailea momolu - switch backside 180 kickflip - shenzhen, china - 2007

color magazine, canada

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al davis - backside nosegrind to fakie - queens, new york - 2008

slapmagazine.com

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skateboarder magazine
june 2009 issue
"cohorts" feature with brian delatorre and ben gore
shot in san francisco, california, 2008

 

ben gore - backside tailslide

brian delatorre - frontside noseslide

the other angle on ben gore's backside tailslide:

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ben gore - ollie over to backside tailslide - pompano beach, florida - 2008

billabong clothing ad
transworld skateboarding magazine
june 2009 issue

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transworld skateboarding magazine
june 2009 issue

pat stiener checkout:

pat stiener - frontside boardslide fakie - manhattan, new york - 2008 

eli reed "20 questions" interview:

london court, boston, massachusetts

front rock, copley square - boston, massachusetts

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

switch kickflip - manhattan, new york

recent published works - march 28, 2009

zach wagner - switch heelflip - los angeles, california - 2009

this was part of a "behind the lens" story titled "when meth-heads attack" on www.slapmagazine.com
link to the article with words, photos, video footage 

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dave bachinsky - frontside 180 kickflip - tampa, florida - 2008

venture trucks ad in the april 2009 issue of thrasher magazine

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from the march/april 2009 issue of focus skate mag:

quim cardona - frontside noseslide - new jersey - 2006

joey pepper - ollie - brooklyn, new york - 2006

shot at n 4th and bedford ave, after severe windstorm

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brad cromer - frontside 50-50 - miami, florida - 2008

may 2009 issue of skateboarder magazine

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ben gore - backside nosegrind - pompano beach, florida - 2008

stereo skateboards ad in FTK magazine recently

cropped version of the same photograph

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danny supa - pop shuv-it - the bronx, new york - 2008

stereo skateboards ad featuring the shepard fairey skateboard series,
in the may 2009 issues of transworld skateboarding magazine and thrasher magazine

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chris pastras - backside tailslide - los angeles, california - 2008

on the hifi wheels website

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this was on espn.com's action sports' skateboarding front page
click here to see a gallery of 8 photographs

recent published works - february 15, 2009

9 photographs

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zach lyons - fs 50-50 - maryland - 2007
as seen on www.slapmagazine.com as their first online only cover, around december 2008.

some other frames:

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walker ryan - backside nosegrind revert - manhattan, new york - 2008
transworld skateboarding magazine, january 2009 issue, downtown manhattan

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backside tailslide

rest in peace, van wastell, 1984-2008.
these were shot in/around washington dc, june 2008
he was there filming a "behind the griptape" with rory sheridan, which was to be his going pro video.
these 2 photos were in his skateboarder magazine interview, february 2009 issue.

pole jam

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eli reed - frontside nosegrind - boston, massachusetts - 2008
autobahn wheel company ad, in the february 2009 issue of thrasher magazine

i like this version without flashes, and shot horizontal, to see a little geometry, architecture, foliage, and rollaway.

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olly todd - frontside ollie - los angeles, california - 2008
kingpin magazine : skateboarding europa - february 2009 issue 62
couldn't believe it. printed in 4 languages!

original composition

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ben gore - kickflip - 2008
skateboarder magazine - march 2009 issue
shot outside los angeles, california
the footage is from the stereo sound agency's website, for his welcome to the team announcement.

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darrell stanton - switch frontside 180 - the bronx, new york - 2007
espn action sports website - february 2009

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danny falla - ollie up, backside 5-0 fakie - brooklyn, new york - 2008
the skateboard MAG - april 2009 issue
shot in brooklyn, new york
look out for danny falla's "mag minute" video on www.theskateboardmag.com