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SNOW SILHOUTTE SERIES: BEHIND THE PROJECT

Three years ago, I started to plan out this series I was really passionate of doing. I have always been so hyped on silhouettes and they seem very powerful to me. They eliminate a lot of distractions and make you focus on shapes, lines, and shadows.

The idea sparked when I saw a photo Trevor Graves had shot almost 10 years ago of Trevor Andrew. It was a shot against a red background at night on a quater pipe, where Trevor was filled with light as well so he wasn't an entire silhouette. I remember thinking, damn, full silhouettes in BW could be pretty insane, and could look rad to bring a studio feel into snowboarding.

Then the pre production started, as I first envisioned each shot from a specific angle on different features. Next I figured out, regular white seamless (typically used in studios) would not work, as they were not large enough and would rip constantly due to the wind. Once I located a 20' X 20' canvas, I bought it for the project. Following that I went to Home Depot with Heffer, and started got a shit load of galvenized pipes, so we could build a frame for the canvas.

I lined up working with the Forum crew exculsivly on this project. Then Transworld was into it as well, so then I knew we had to make it happen. Working with the park crew at Mammoth was awesome, as they were down to build and shape whatever was needed for the project. Each night, we shot one feature and completled one photograph for the series.

Below are the shots from the series (we shot one color silho), the cover shot of Transworld Photo Annual, and a video edit done by BoBBY about the project. Thanks to all that helped with this project, as it was a bit of a large one to pull off. It feels pretty good to have finally completled a solid personal project in snowboarding. I hope to executing more in the future.


Stevie Bell- Gap to frontboard


Eddie Wall- Blunt to Fakie

Niko Cioffi- Rail to rail gap- BS shifty

Cam Pierce - Ollie Shifty

Stevie Bell- Nosepress

Trevor Jacob and Greg bretz- Front side air over handplant





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Christmas Presents....

Hey... If your frolicking, and trying to figure out Christmas presents, take a look at I-d Prints. The super high quality poster company (affordable?-yes) for surf, skate, snow who now also offer a framed option.

NOT COOL

My Image:
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I think its complete bullshit when art directors or designers crop photos substatially at magazines to fit the layout. I understand when they need to crop a bit, but to crop something more than 50%, totally destroying the compisition, really pisses me off.

To me its almost like someone taking a knife to a my damn painting, and shredding it up to fit into a backpack. Im not trying to claim I am a fine artist or that my photographs are highly meaningful, but they are important to me. I know how hard I bust my ass some days to get shots, and to see them destroyed like this, kills me. As a photographer, I am delivery my point of view, my perception of a scene or a moment. When a composition gets destroyed like this at no disregard, I start to think, fuck, with digital people have way to much control. Slaughter fest in the last issue at snowboarder.

Im for sure stoked to be working with Snowboarder, and always have been. I just think as creatives/artists/photographers you need to stand strong next to your work, and make sure your point of view gets across. (literaly and visually)

NiKo-Mammoth_Sneak Peak

A personal project of mine- Snow Silho- has just ran in a mag. I'll be doing a full post about it fully soon, once we have all the right pieces lined up. Just wanted to give a sneak peak......

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