Tag Archives: fixed gear

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Two Years On

It’s been exactly two years since the event that changed my life irrevocably. I always used to wonder about fate, if it existed, you know, how our lives unfold and what control we have in it all. If each little action truly causes a reaction … Read More

On a shoot in Lower Manhattan photographing the guys in the film Empire.

COG Magazine outtakes

I started shooting for COG Magazine pretty early on, maybe for their third issue. I was very impressed by COG in that the guys there were doing it right. Glossy pages, tons of pictures, a deliberate investment in design and photography and it was free. … Read More

John "Prolly" Watson

A Meeting of Dervishes With Fixed Gears

My photo essay finally published in today’s Metropolitan section of The New York Times. Online at nytimes.com there is an audio slideshow with many more pictures as well. I started hanging out and shooting at Peel Sessions, which takes place every Thursday night under the … Read More

Understatement

Monstertrack X

. . . is over. I only made it to a few hours of the whole weekend’s events. It was freezing and now there’s a blizzard. Check out these lame pics.

John Prolly, chainring grind at the DUMBO bank under the Brooklyn Bridge.

DUMBO bank sequence

I recently spent a few hours underneath of the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn shooting a session with John Prolly for the next issue of COG. I’m not a skateboard photographer so this is my first try at a sequence. Next up is hittin that gap … Read More

This bike is headed straight for my light stand. When it hit it wasn't pretty.

Peel Sessions

If you ride a fixed gear bike in New York then you might have heard of Peel Sessions. Peel Sessions is hosted by John Prolly, a fellow North Carolina immigrant and architect by day. On Thursday evenings he hosts a get together for track bike … Read More

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