My knowledge of Mark Gallup prior to our first encounter was limited to pictures of his I’d seen. I knew he was a bit of legend—a history anchored to a mug shot and profile in a TWS feature on snowboard photographers I’d read back in seventh grade.
Our introduction on a photo shoot eliminated some of the mystery. It was obvious from the outset that Gallup was a consummate professional—as well as, I was to learn on subsequent shoots, a beer enthusiast, truly native redneck, travel junky, and a teenager trapped in a 40-year-old’s body.…
—from Jesse Huffman’s introduction to Born To Shoot: The Mark Gallup Portfolio