The commercial airliner touches down on a runway in Nairobi, Kenya and taxis to a stop. Greg Von Doersten emerges from the plane, camera in hand, and rushes around to chat up the gate manager. Soon he’s in the cargo hold of their Democratic Republic of Congo-bound flight, shooting photos of kayaks and gear being loaded. […]

When Jamie Walter was a junior in high school, he set out on a college road trip with his parents, searching for the perfect place to earn his engineering degree. His dad was an engineer. He would be one too. Columbia. Cornell. McGill. Clarkson. Happy schools full of happy people. But Walter didn’t feel that way. […]

We’ve heard about burnout at retail jobs, of hitting the limit as a desk jockey, but what happens when shooting photos of the best skiers in the world—a proverbial dream gig—reaches its threshold? At 33 years old, French ski photographer Jeremy Bernard was leading an enviable life, chasing the deepest conditions, best skiers and biggest lines […]

Until digital cameras came along, photography was chemistry. It’s easy to picture the darkroom and its trays of chemicals: hydroquinone, acetic acid, ammonium thiosulfate—the developer, the stop bath and the fixer. But even the creative act of opening the shutter, allowing photons into the camera to oxidize halide crystals in the film, is chemical reaction. […]

Bob Woodall and Wade McKoy share a storage unit off of Highway 89, just south of Jackson, WY. In it sits the history of Jackson Hole on film—filing cabinets packed with sheets upon sheets of slides that span more than four decades. Austrian Franz Klammer winning the resort’s World Cup downhill in 1975. “Sick” Rick Armstrong […]

After five years of working at Skieur magazine, the France-based ski magazine that launched his photography career, pro ski photographer Daher decided to break out on his own. Before he could make the full move to freelance, he was approached by some office veterans who told him to sue his employer to make enough money to […]

You’d like Bruce. No, really. It’s very hard not to. He’s fun to be with, easy-going, has a lifetime of great stories about things he’s done, places he’s been, people he knows, skiers he’s shot.  Shot with a camera, of course. Although he does have a dangerous side. Black belt in Tae kwon do. A lowly […]

Here’s something to never say at a job interview: “Can we pop by an emergency room?” But it’s a question Josh Bishop had to ask. The 22-year-old skier had a rubber earbud lodged in his right lobe and it hurt like hell. “The thing was fully stuck in there,” he says. “I couldn’t see it at […]

In the 1990s skiing underwent a revolution. Big mountain skiers picked up the pace, while an emerging group of park skiers incorporated stylistic expressions in the air and urban environments, influenced by snowboarders and skateboarders. It was the beginning of the freesking movement, a subculture of mainstream skiing, which at the time was driven by racing. […]

Nic Alegre’s career took off when he got kicked out of Canada. American by birth and passport, he’d been living in Whistler, BC on and off for several years, working as an aspiring photographer. He’d leave every six months, as required by immigration, and spend time in Los Angeles and back home in New York. In […]