Our favorite skateboarding photographer (Grant Brittain) prints one of our favorite skateboarding photos (you know the one) of one of our favorite skateboard company owners (Tod Swank). Doesn’t get much better than that, really, but here are the details from SLVDR.
The SLVDR Craftsman Guild series visits the legendary skateboarding photographer Grant Brittain. His career goes back over three decades and began out of a passion for skateboarding and documenting his friends as subjects. In our visit he chooses the negative of perhaps his most iconic photo and develops and prints it in his private darkroom. It’s a lost art and represents the true craft of photography and a real photographic icon.
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J. GRANT BRITTAIN FOR SLVDR CRAFTSMAN GUILD
The SLVDR Craftsman Guild series visits the legendary skateboarding photographer Grant Brittain. His career goes back over three decades and began out of a passion for skateboarding and documenting his friends as subjects. In our visit he chooses the negative of perhaps his most iconic photo and develops and prints it in his private darkroom. It’s a lost art and represents the true craft of photography and a real photographic icon.
This year SLVDR is expanding the “Craftsman Guild” platform, it’s our association of like-minded creatives engaged in kindred pursuits whose work is consistently of the highest quality. Our main purpose with the Craftsman Guild is to call attention to these creative people who feed us inspiration and share a common direction with the SLVDR brand. The Craftsman themselves are introduced as ambassadors for the brand and further establish SLVDR as a creative and design-driven brand.
About SLVDR
SLVDR is a contemporary California style brand that encourages creative thinking to inspire cool culture. The design philosophies are shown in our products by hyper-focused attention to creative details, premium fabrics and well-considered fits. Our aesthetic and philosophy are “Born in California, influenced by the world.”
About J. Grant Brittain
Grant Brittain picked up a camera at the ripe old age of 25 and started shooting his friends skateboarding at the Del Mar Skate Ranch. In 1983, Grant was asked to contribute skate photos to the premiere issue of TransWorld SKATEboarding magazine and became its founding Photo Editor and Senior Photographer.
Over the past thirty-plus years, Brittain has captured the best skateboarders in photos that have become classics. He has also taught some of the best skate photographers, past and present, and helped them develop their own work. Grant then went on to become one of the creative elite who founded The Skateboard Mag and he continues to develop his photographic craft to this day.
Few photographers have pursued so wide a range of subjects and styles. But few individuals find themselves so central to such an active community, where one’s perspective is just a notch askew of the rest, and where movement and progression is the norm. Grant Brittain’s body of work reflects his deep involvement in an emerging youth culture, as well as his escape from it.
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