I think a lot of people are always like
oh you know you’re a climber your
photographer you’re so lucky you’re
doing what you love they’re also the two
things that drive me even though the
insane because you’re the most obsessed
about them they burn me as much as they
exalt my kind of salt right you’re
really passionate about climbing
something and you put your heart and
soul into it and you train and you train
sometimes over years and you fail and I
think every photographer probably has
those moments a lot of the things that I
shoot are out in beautiful immaculate
landscapes that people have rarely
visited I’ve always seen my role is to
kind of bring that back for people
photography can also give a person a new
perspective on their own context in the
world
it’s exploration on on so many different
levels there’s always the physical
exploration of like the landscape the
topography the exploration of your
physical limits
there’s the exploration of what your
mind can handle and manage and then to
add shooting to it you add this whole
kind of creative exploration the biggest
challenge for me is definitely trying to
be creative under kind of physical
duress it’s dumping snow
you just got to a camp and you’re at
20,000 feet and the light is amazing but
you have to put up this portal edge
where you can get in to spend the night
and that takes a lot of time and you’re
hanging in your harness and you’re wet
and you pull out the camera and if you
do are you gonna get it a frame because
really you should be maybe five feet
over but you’d have to unclip from the
anchor to get the shot which is
dangerous and you know there’s like
you’re constantly like managing risk
assessment there’s a lot of stuff going
on and then you have to remember oh
right I should probably pull out my
camera and take a photo right
oh you know you’re a climber your
photographer you’re so lucky you’re
doing what you love they’re also the two
things that drive me even though the
insane because you’re the most obsessed
about them they burn me as much as they
exalt my kind of salt right you’re
really passionate about climbing
something and you put your heart and
soul into it and you train and you train
sometimes over years and you fail and I
think every photographer probably has
those moments a lot of the things that I
shoot are out in beautiful immaculate
landscapes that people have rarely
visited I’ve always seen my role is to
kind of bring that back for people
photography can also give a person a new
perspective on their own context in the
world
it’s exploration on on so many different
levels there’s always the physical
exploration of like the landscape the
topography the exploration of your
physical limits
there’s the exploration of what your
mind can handle and manage and then to
add shooting to it you add this whole
kind of creative exploration the biggest
challenge for me is definitely trying to
be creative under kind of physical
duress it’s dumping snow
you just got to a camp and you’re at
20,000 feet and the light is amazing but
you have to put up this portal edge
where you can get in to spend the night
and that takes a lot of time and you’re
hanging in your harness and you’re wet
and you pull out the camera and if you
do are you gonna get it a frame because
really you should be maybe five feet
over but you’d have to unclip from the
anchor to get the shot which is
dangerous and you know there’s like
you’re constantly like managing risk
assessment there’s a lot of stuff going
on and then you have to remember oh
right I should probably pull out my
camera and take a photo right
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