A grave site in a military zone. Lobitos, Peru.
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Not much was spoken on the ride over and even less when we were dropped off in the middle of town. Three of us had just gotten off a buss in a small town in Ecuador. We bumped into each other, trying not to be seen. Tired, warn down, and anxious, we paid ten bucks each for the second hotel we came across. It was over budget but we felt we wanted a secure environment for little first leg on the road.
A three hour ride up the mountain hillside. Buses passing transport trucks, cars, and motorcycles and then buses passing buses. In Ecuador it feels like if you hand over money before the task is done, it's a race to finish it. On Christmas day a cramped bus flipped off the hillside killing forty one passengers and severely injuring everyone else alive as they rolled like dice. We wondered how nobody every died and tried to shrug it off as we figured it was sudden death below.
Bad Relationships.
35mm | Ecuador | 2010 | Unapologetic Apologies
Self Portrait
Here I am naked listening to my iPod in a hotel in Playas, Ecuador. I had huge expectations for my first time traveling. I thought the act would solve all my problems, boy was I wrong. Happens every time!
Atacomes, Ecuador. 2010.
From the series “These New Poutines”
On The Road. Ecuador. 2010.
Traveling on a quite bus can be quite meditative. Hours on end not talking to anyone just sitting and observing the landscape changing from mountains to ocean to banana plantations to desert. A very slow transition. Traveling from one well off town to a next you realize how fortunate your are as you pass through one shanty town to the next. A fast visual transition and a saddening one.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Baños, Ecuador. 2010.
We were going through surf withdrawal and were hungry for some action so we took a dune buggy to check out a zip line that spans a mile across the Andes and the Amazon Basin.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Another Almuerzo. Puerto Lopez, Ecuador. 2010.
A two dollar lunch with soup, rice, beans, beats, deep fried fish and tap water lemonade. An outdoor kitchen with a tarp roof. Without getting any waterborne disease we said goodbye to burgers and pizza and the ‘almuerzo’ became our staple diet.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Montañita, Ecuador. 2010.
More scared then stoked, not much was spoken on the ride over and less when we were dropped off in the middle of the town. Bumping into each other, trying not to be seen. Tired, warn down, and anxious we paid ten bucks each for the second hotel we came across. It was over budget but we felt we deserved a secure environment our first couple days.
This town never sleeps. no waves no sleep. Eat, shit, surf, siesta, surf, eat, and then drink and smoke, till 5 am then repeat. Its a fucking hippy den in Montinita. Yeap the place to be. Smoke your weed release your seed. The perfect place to come for your week long, bleach blond, spring break.
Three blonde gringos from Vancouver, travel to Ecuador and Peru’s coastline in order to find decent waves.
From the series “These New Poutines”
My work has just been put up in the Sitka Victoria Gallery for the next month, Featuring my travel work from Indonesia, Thailand, Peru, Ecuador & Columbia.