Last night I was onstage taking some photos at a Mexico reggae concert!
Professional dancer Mayra Mendez, drooling over her boyfriend Adan Nunez, the lead singer of Golden Ganga
For the past two months I’ve been exploring Mexico’s coastline, surfing and shooting every day. I hope you guys are stoked to see some new colour work in the near future!
Just submitted my application to be apart of the 2013 State of the ART, World Ski and Snowboard Festival Show!
I’ve passed through this gallery countless times each year and have always wanted my own section to showcase my work.
Wish me luck!
Kuda, Lombok, Indonesia. 2011.
The only people in town that were stoked to welcome the President. The parents had to play along.
From the Series Body Over Mind.
The Bi-Weekly Cock Touch. Nusa Lembongan, Indonesia. 2011.
Spectators watch as two locals get their cocks fired up before a fight.
From the series Body Over Mind.
Aloha Amigos,
I apologize for not showing any new work recently.
I am too busy surfing, traveling, taking photos, eating tacos, not learning Spanish, not wearing anything but board shorts, getting tanned, reading books, reading surf magazines, meeting new friends, pooing uncontrollably, eating more tacos, drinking a beer or two (x5), siesta and fiestaing, surfing and straight up just enjoying Mexico.
For now you’ll have to check out some unseen photos from my last surf trip to Indonesia.
Hasta luego cabrones!
Journal Entry. Medellín, Colombia. 2010.
We went to Colombia for two weeks. it pretty much ended our surf trip instantly, and turned us into loser drunk backpackers. It is the complete opposite of Ecuador; good food, great women, beautiful lush landscapes, no waves, sky scrapers, fake breasts and asses, hookers and blow, and everything is way scarier and expensive.
These New Poutines are like a Roman Catholic rock group. We are a rare breed who don’t smoke weed or do any drugs for that matter. But we intermingle with coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, sex and debauchery.
From the series “These New Poutines”
My buddy Sasha Barkans just put together some hard work and created a new album on my site!
"Warm Beer Cold Women" is a series that focuses on a love/hate relationship of surfing in frigid waters, with little sleep, and long car rides. Warm Beer Cold Women is a story about how the surrounding conditions are worsening, but the surf is soon changing for the better.
Location: Sombrio, Tofino, Ucluelet, La Push, & Westport.
Look for new work from Mexico to come shortly.
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”
Road to Quito, Ecuador. 2010.
A three hour ride up the mountain hillside. Buses passing transport trucks, cars, and motorcycles and then buses passing buses. In Ecuador if you are handed money before you have began your task it is 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 anyways.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Rockstars. Ayampe, Ecuador. 2010
We were sitting around at the bar trying to come up with our trivia night table name. With a few Canadians and a few Americans we became These New Poutines. We beat a bunch of old folks at their own game and got a twenty dollar tab at the bar. That’s twenty beers. When we weren’t near the ocean we would tell girls we were pro surfers and when we were near the ocean we would tell them we were touring in a band called These New Poutines, “some of that MTV shit?”. We got about the same benefits most celebrities would get in a third world country.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Hostal de Ricky. Montañita, Ecuador. 2010.
We where dragging our bags and boards across town to find this hotel that our buddy Ricky Lobo owned and somehow crossed paths with him as he was pulling out for a ten hour drive for an incoming storm. He recommended we not stay at his hostal but to keep moving north. Just arriving from Peru we couldn’t do another consecutive day on a bus so we used our judgment to stay and ended up scoring perfect nine foot waves with thousands of harmless jellyfish.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Grave Site In A Military Zone. Lobitos, Peru. 2010.
This place looks like Baghdad. An ex-military zone with refineries, exposed pipe lines, a few oil rigs in the distant ocean, and small dispersed shacks in the dessert. I’d assume someone is taking advantage of someone in this oil business. You can cross a military checkpoint on the vacant road along side the ocean, where supposedly there’s a vacant break to surf after you get the okay from the gunman.
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”