Image above shot 35mm film.
In January 2023, I met Patrizia and Marie in Morocco for an epic month long journey (a portion of the 4.5 months total the women were on the road filming for GUTS the film). We worked with Billabong Women’s Europe, Adventure Division. Click through to see the blog on the Billabong website!
Read MoreOn a warm day on the cusp of Fall, my buds Marie Pfisterer and Patrizia Bruno and I took off from Biarritz, France for a few nights surf- camp- off road adventure through the desert in the Basque region of Spain.
Billabong Women’s Europe put together an amazing blog including images from our adventure and interviews with the three of us.
Read MorePatrizia Bruno and Marie Pfisterer and I explored the Spanish desert in between camping under the stars and finding small waves to surf.
I captured this series on Ilford 400 and Rollieflex Infrared, black and white 35 mm film via my Yashica T4 and Canon AE-1. I used a handheld prism to create special effects.
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Cover shot for Hi Hey Hello magazine issue 006 shot with a few of my good friends at sunrise in the desert after camping under the stars the night before.
Hi Hey Hello Magazine released Issue 006 this October 2022. HiHeyHello is a twice-yearly print magazine celebrating women’s outdoor culture, sitting at the intersection of adventure, sport, and creativity.
I’m beyond grateful and honored that they chose one of my images to represent this issue in such a huge way, as the cover shot.
Thanks to @anya_miller and @saharad for the opportunity for the cover and the feature within the pages. Thank you for the amazing work you’re doing to amplify untold stories and bring more representation of the underrepresented in the outdoor & surf industries. It’s really important work on so many levels.
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Sky Brown, Olympic Gold medal winner in female skateboarding, tests new technology for Google’s Project Skate.
Google released Project Skate, a new technology that tracks and quantifies athletes movements when they are skating. “Project Skate is helping to change the face of skateboarding with machine learning.”
Thanks to ThinkLess Studio I was brought on as photographer to capture Olympic Gold medal winner in women’s skateboarding, Sky Brown, testing out the new technology at a backyard ramp in Sky’s hometown near Oceanside, California.
Read MoreSkater Lucie Curutchet, her pup Bowie and I shot the following images around Biarritz, France one evening after a beautiful rainstorm.
Lucie is a co-founder of Skate Her, a female skateboarding community that impacts women around France.
Read MoreLily Meola and I both live in the same small, surf town in Southern California. We happened to be neighbors for a week and decided to go play around in the spring flowers and get creative with several looks.
Read MoreIn September 2022 as I passed through Paris, I connected with co-leaders of Swirl Paris (the French chapter of GrlSwirl, a female skate community based in Venice, California) Pauline and Ambre.
They showed me around their city by board. We shot film and digital images of them skating the historic streets of Paris.
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The story about UCanSkate and their mission to empower women through their skateboarding community in Mexico City was recently published in Skateism Issue 9.
I’m proud, grateful & excited to have written and photographed this 10-page spread in this gorgeous, non-traditional skate mag that highlights stories in the skate industry “for the underground & overlooked, the weird & the wonderful”. Skateism is created & printed in Athens, Greece and distributed internationally.
Read MoreSelema Masekela, Danielle Black Lyons, Hunter Jones and Ryan Harris are making big waves for equality and representation in the surf industry.
I had the pleasure of hanging with this wonderful crew and volunteering to shoot some images with them for their organization 1 Planet One People during a morning surf session in Encinitas, California on a gorgeous day in 2021.
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I am fortunate to be included in the gorgeous coffee table book, Skate Like a Girl. The book features women in the global skate community- skaters, artists and community organizers.
I’ve been shooting female skateboarding for 6 years now. There is a nice compilation of images throughout the book of skate communities like GrlSwirl (with Lucy Osinski and Mariah Marquez), Kateboards (with Katie Adams), French skater Manon Lanza, Danielle Black Lyons from Oceanside.
Images were captured in Santa Monica, Venice, Huntington Beach, Oceanside, Encinitas and Leucadia, California.
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The interview with both Josefina Tapia and Sophia Cook, skaters from Chile, is featured in Skateism Issue 8. Josefina is Chile’s first female Olympic Skateboarding competitor in history.
The two answer questions about what it’s been like for Josefina to prepare for the Olympics, how skateboarding is an important part of their relationship to themselves and to each other, and what it’s been like to be an openly gay couple in their Chilean and international skateboarding communities.
Shot on film, digital and Polaroid.
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San Diego brand, Sun and Loom, commissioned 75 photographs to build their Daydream collage kit. It launched March 23rd, for sale on their website and select boutique floors.
What is a collage kit? Think of it as an interactive coffee table book.
Remember those angsty high-school days where we expressed ourselves by ripping out magazine pages and sticking them to our walls? Oh, you didn’t do that. Cool…. cool. Well, at least you know someone who did.
A collage kit is the adult, more curated version of this.
This collage kit in particular is comprised of 75 images I’ve captured over the past few years (on film and digital), printed on 8.5 x 11 recycled paper with soy ink (and 10% of the proceeds go to the Honnold Foundation).
Daydream enthusiasts are encouraged to transform their spaces with this kit in whichever way their creative mind desires. I’ve enjoyed hanging the images in various arrangements in different rooms, framed some, and gifting a few prints to friends.
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About the Collection
This photographic collection encapsulates timeless adventures; friends surf deserted breaks in tropical water and relish lazy moments nestled against the sandstone sea-cliffs in my California backyard.
The Daydream Collage Kit takes you on a journey along the Southern California coastline to remote beaches throughout Mexico.
Feel the California sun on your face, warm sand between your toes, and the thrill of catching a perfect wave. Transport yourself into authentic moments of freedom.
This curated collection provides relaxing escapism wherever and however you choose to display it- in a bedroom, office, or meditation corner. Transform your familiar spaces into a daydream.
Bethany Valverde (@beeeeeeffff) brought a vintage suitcase full of swimsuits to the beach. This sustainably-made Seea one-piece became the style of choice.. All images shot on Kodak Portra 400, 35mm film on my Canon Ae-1 and Polaroid I-type film in Encinitas, California. See: swimwear, surf culture, femininity, light play
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Eye candy in the form of salty rigs line the streets. They slowly creep in front of you as you’re driving. Their engines sputter from one surf break to the next in North County San Diego, California. Leucadia, Encinitas, and Cardiff-by-the-Sea are home to these relics. All images shot on Kodak Portra 400 & 800, 35mm film on my Canon Ae-1. This is an ongoing series.
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It doesn’t storm often in coastal Southern California. When it did, I wanted to take advantage of it. Mind you, jumping into the ocean, nude, when it’s 55 degrees Fahrenheit with scattered showers is a big ask to fair-weather friends. Luckily, best-friends Henny Rau (@henny_rau) and Chloé Bleue (@chloe.bleue) felt invigorated by the chance to create some seaside memories in Encinitas, California. All images shot on Kodak T-Max 3200 (pulled to 1600iso), 35mm film on my Canon Ae-1 and Kodak Portra 800 on a Pentax IQZoom 80-E point and shoot. I incorporated the use of some handheld prisms. See: femininity, light play, movement, nature, female form.
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Seaside sunsets on a warm January evening with multi-talented, Maya Harrison, @mayaaharrison, in Encinitas, California. All images shot on Kodak T-Max 3200, 35mm film on my Canon Ae-1 and Kodak Porta 400 on a Pentax IQZoom 80-E point and shoot, plus some handheld prisms. See: femininity vibes, light play, movement, surf lifestyle & various experimental photography techniques.
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Seaside sunrises on a foggy September morning with author & poet, Erin Belair @roseblaque, in Laguna Beach, California. All images shot on Kodak Portra 400, 35mm film on an old Leica point and shoot Erin found at a store in Japan. See: Moody misty mornings, Wes Anderson vibes, & intimate in-home portraits of the writer.
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