Gigi’s ad just launched in the new issue of Transworld. We shot it on location, deep in the backcountry of Alaska. I spent 16 days up there, posted up, waking up every morning and looking outside for sun. Finally new snow had came, and the sun FINALLY came out. It was projected to be a [...]

Just wanted to say thanks to Hurricane BILL delivering the goods! It had been flat on the Cape for almost a month.
Below is a shot by my buddy Luke Simpson, of someone in Rhode Island.

The following photo essay pulled from The Snowboard Journal, circa 2005

In the following ten pages you will see five sets of photographs arranged in groups of two. Each photo represents one aspect of snowboarding, while the groupings are intended to show the contrast between them.
Shred lumber in-bounds, then hit a handrail after the lifts close. [...]

Hood shoot is now complete, the crew caught their flights home. I rounded up all my gear, finished off the edit and caught some quality Portland time visiting bike shops and the local homies. Out to Arizona for the weekend then back to VT on Monday. Peace, Blotto
© Dean Blotto Gray / Blotto Photto 2009

Danny Kass AD:
The inital idea was to shoot Danny in the pipe, but Danbo can shred it all and he likes to show that. So we brought him on a trip in the Whistler Backcountry last March. We were on weather hold for a few days and the sun finally broke.
Our crew got in the [...]

With the departure of one crew and the arrival of another, a Portland mission was in order because you can’t visit Mt Hood and not catch up with the PDX locals. After a good night in the City of Roses I headed back up to Welches to start my next assignment with Keegan and Jussi.
We [...]

Part One of the Hood shoot is complete…Gabi, Natasza, Susie, Ross and I spent our final evening up on Mt Hood at Windells Snowboard Camp. Another beautiful sunset enhanced the photographic opportunities laid out before us in the form of kickers, half pipes and jibs. Keaton hooked us up with the snowmobile shuttles and reshaping [...]

In the July issue of PDN, they featured the finalists of the PDN FACES CONTEST. I submitted the follwoing 4 images:
Nicolas Muller

Kevin Pearce

Pat Moore

Patrick Armbruster

This image of Patrick Armbruster, a cinematographer for Absinthe Films made it to the finals and to print in the Celebrity/Editorial section. This was an editorial assignment, shot on location [...]

Last week we shot AD number 8 for the NIKE SNOW 2010 AD CAMPAIGN. The whole ad campaign is based off of a concept of mine called “Birds eye of snow”.
I wanted to create an action campaign with a unique perspective throughout. I then proposed a birds eye view, of each of the NIKE riders. [...]

Swank. The classic TWS shot.
Grant Brittain. Photographer.
There have been many people over the last three decades who picked up a camera in the name of skateboarding. I think you would be hard pressed to pick one that has had more of an impact than Grant Brittain.
He took some time out of his inevitably busy work [...]