{"id":49393,"date":"2016-01-05T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49393"},"modified":"2016-01-08T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T17:57:17","slug":"rip-photographer-chris-brunkhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49393","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Photographer Chris Brunkhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49394 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9914-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9914\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9914-450x338.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9914-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9914-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9914.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><em><strong>Chris Brunkhart<\/strong> with <strong>Gamma Function<\/strong> co-conspirators <strong>Zach Egge<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Bacon<\/strong> at Brunkhart&#8217;s September 30, 2010 AR4T Gallery opening for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18451\"><strong>How Many Dreams In The Dark<\/strong><\/a> in Laguna Beach, California.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Snowboarding lost one of its most iconographic image makers on January 2, 2016 with\u00a0Chris Brunkhart&#8217;s death from cancer. He was 47.<\/p>\n<p>In a eulogy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frqncy.com\/news\/2016\/01\/04\/a-eulogy-for-chris-brunkhart\"><em><strong>Frequency: The Snowboarding Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<strong>Jeff Galbraith<\/strong> summed up many people&#8217;s thoughts when he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To Chris Brunkhart, whose bravery far outshone the most daredevil of snowboard stuntmen, and whose talent and passion remain as vast as the Western night sky; we love you my brother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18735\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> for our 2010 interview with Chris Brunkhart on the publishing of his book <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbrunkhart.com\">How Many Dreams In The Dark<\/a>, <\/strong><\/em>or here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdnonline.com\/news\/obituaries\/Obituary-Influential-Snowboard-Photographer-Chris-Brunkhart-47-15462.shtml\"><strong><em>Photo District News<\/em>&#8216; obituary<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A gathering is planned in Portland, Oregon for the weekend of January 15-16, 2016. We&#8217;ll have more info as it arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Brunkhart with Gamma Function co-conspirators Zach Egge and Alex Bacon at Brunkhart&#8217;s September 30, 2010 AR4T Gallery opening for How Many Dreams In The Dark in Laguna Beach, California. Snowboarding lost one of its most iconographic image makers on January 2, 2016 with\u00a0Chris Brunkhart&#8217;s death from cancer. He was 47. In a eulogy on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49393"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49444,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393\/revisions\/49444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}