Having learned that David Grant enjoys shooting photos from his recent DIG interview, I decided to hit him up and see if he would be down to contribute an Autophoto. Being a fan of riders who also shoot, I was psyched to know he was down.
Click below to check out David Grant’s Autophoto. All the photos were taken on Canon or Minolta 35mm cameras.
Be sure to follow David Grant on Instagram too.
Seen a post of Lucia Griggi’s underwater surf photos over at Huh Magazine and thought they were rad enough to share. They surely got me excited for Chicago summer and shooting with my underwater film camera. Although, the water in Lake Michigan isn’t quite as clear as this.
Check out some more of her little interview and images here.
Of course for my first post I pick a lengthy documentary, but if you have time to sit back and watch this, you won’t be disappointed. William Klein is probably one of the most influential street photographers as well as one of the great early fashion photographers of the 20th century. He’s one bad ass old man to boot….he does whatever he wants. The stories this man must have!!!
We’re happy to announce that Chicago based photographer & rider Timothy Burkhart will be joining us here at Defgrip.
We happened to come in contact with Timothy one day, and one thing lead to another. We found that we had similar interests and bringing him on board worked out naturally. Timothy has been a fan of the site for some time, has a BFA in photography/studio art, is currently handling photo duties for The Bakery and carries too many cameras. He knows what we’re about and we look forward to having his posts in the mix.
“I know some of my previous wives didn’t think I was funny at all” “The good thing about dogs is they are everywhere, they are usually sympathetic, they don’t complain… and they don’t ask for prints”
Quotes for days… Loving this video with photographer Elliott Erwitt from Nowness. Check it out!
Really blown away by the work of Michael Wolf. Make sure to spend a lot of time on his website because he has so many incredible photo series like this one or this one or this… Just check it all out. Thanks to Jon Fischer for the link and keep reading to check out some more of Michael Wolf’s work.
Catching up on The Atlantic’s In Focus section today. Really stoked on a few of the latest galleries. Check out the Native American portraits, Google Maps Japan ghost town, and don’t miss the epic camo/shooting photo in the North Korea military gallery. Keep reading to see a few of my favorite shots.
Please welcome Southern California’s Brandon Means to Defgrip’s Photo of the Day. Brandon will be taking over the sidebar for the next little while. We’ve featured Brandon on the site before, so expect some cool stuff.
Follow Brandon in Instagram.
Thanks to Jason Stankiewicz for holding it down.
I’ve was really excited to discover Lee Friedlander’s work last week. Not sure how, but up until I was reading an Avedon book the other day I was completely unaware of his work. I’m really digging his photos from inside his car and the mannequin/reflection series. Check out a bunch of his work after the jump.
Brian Barnhart has put together a zine featuring photos from his travels in the Pacific Northwest. Fans of travel and photography should give it a look. Prints are available as well.
Casual Encounters can be viewed and/or purchased HERE.
For this years Simple Session, we were able to get our friend Vincent Perraud out there to cover the whole thing for us. We’re fans of Vince around here and I knew he would come back with great photos, which he did (and delivered in a super timely manner). I fucking love this gallery; it captures the atmosphere, the people, the scene and the riding perfectly. Dude even got into the rafters.
Cheers to Vincent, Risto and the Simple Session crew.
Click below for the gallery.
Continue reading Photogallery: Simple Session By Vincent Perraud →
I’m convinced that the world is a better place because we have Jeff Z photos. That’s pretty much some sort of scientifically proven fact and shit. With that said, Jeff has re-launched his site with tons of stuff to look at. Eyeball the site HERE.
For more Z, check out the great Autophoto he put together for us in 2010. Also, R.I.P. to the Volvo.
Vivian Maier was a nanny by day and a street photographer by night. This mysterious lady’s biography gets unveiled after her death. The story is truly incredible; I cannot wait for the release of this film. Check out the trailer for it for now.
Jason Stankiewicz ( aka knowtomorrow ) is one of my favorites that I follow on Instagram, so I figured he would be a good person to take over the P.O.T.D. on the sidebar for a month. Jason is an East Coaster and shoots anything to do with city life along with other treats mixed in ( assuming when he escapes the city ).
Check out his site HERE, follow him on Instagram and keep an eye on the sidebar to the right.
The traveling photo gallery known as the Imprint project (Through Quintin & Breaks Mag) comes to London this week, and features work from the following:
Walter Peringer
Walter Peringer is a photographer based in Austin, TX. He has completed commercial and editorial assignments on six continents and in more than two dozen countries across the globe. His BMX photographs can be seen
in Ride Uk.
George Marshall
George Marshall is a London based freelance photographer and associate editor of The Albion BMX magazine. In 2006 he graduated with a masters in photography from the University of Nottingham and as an undergraduate exchange student he studied photography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. George is definitely one of those photographers with The Eye: he gets in there, figures out the shot, takes care of it, and it always comes out a treat.
Ricky Adam
Ricky Adam likes to shoot photos. His current employment at Dig BMX requires him to shoot photos of BMX, but he takes his photography much further beyond the realm of technically accurate BMX riding to capture the reality of life.
Jeff Zielinski
Finding the best new spot to ride for the most epic tricks to be photographed, lies Jeff Z. Part human navigational system and part photographic visionary, he is the go to guy if you want to shoot some polished BMX photos. You can call him obsessive, crazy, over-prepared, or just call him the Associate Editor/Photo Editor at Ride BMX.
Edwin Delarosa
Edwin DeLarosa is a professional BMX rider turned photographer who has uninhibited eye for the streets. His images capture the life around him and the energy of NYC
Opening Info
6:30-8:30pm
31st January
RSVP@breaksmag.com (RSVP Essential)
Exposure Gallery
22-23 Little Portland Street
London
Timothy Burkhart hit us up to let us know about a project he’s been working on with fellow photographer Stephanie Bassos called People vs. Places
“This double exposure project allows us to step back from having full control of the image making process and trust in one another while allowing coincidences to happen naturally on film. Stephanie exposes a full roll of 35mm film of only “people,” and Timothy reloads the film again into the same camera, to imprint only “places” and locations to the same roll. These images are all the end result of our ongoing series and are unedited negatives straight from the camera.”
Check it out here and keep reading to check out a few more images.
Our boy Nuno has a really awesome in-depth interview up on Orange Juice covering everything from Defgrip, to Odyssey, as well as his personal photography. Check it out!
Not sure what’s happening on INTERNET K HOLE, but it might be amazing. Throwbackapalooza!
Warning: Some old school nudity.
Desktop dump time… Lots of random stuff I’ve collected on the internet over the past month or so.
I had randomly come across Alex Valentino’s New York gallery on The Diggest and was really into it. I always get stoked when I unexpectedly find out that certain people are into shooting, so I did what I do best and asked him to contribute to the ‘grip and he came through.
Click below to check out an assortment of some of his favorite pics from 2012.
2012 was interesting. I moved from Long Beach to Austin, and for whatever reason ended up shooting way less “real” photos than I did in years past. I still carried a camera around a bunch and accumulated some goodies, but ended up with a lot less this year. For real, I’m blaming Instagram (in a good way). No matter the medium, we still have images. This collection of photos is a mix of camera and iPhone pics that I took throughout 2012. Enjoy!
Click below to check out the scrapbook.
Justin Kosman. Always moving, always shooting. Here is a collection of photos he shot in 2012.
Click below.
Enjoy!
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