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Portfolio: Trevor Graves
Snowboarding has sort of grown up. And if you were around to glimpse the flash and flicker of snowboarding's true beginnings, well then, you, too, are grown up. It's the nature of being a snowboarder, however, that we'll never be boring adults like all those "normal" people out there. We've got a brotherhood and a freedom chromosome that'll be with us until, you know …
Photographer Trevor Graves is the embodiment of this coming of age. His first photo was published in ISM, the sport's first publication, when he was barely 20 years old—it was a 1987 shot of Noah Brandon and John Gerndt riding on Trevor's home turf at Nashoba Valley, Massachusetts. Since then, he has been a crucial part of telling snowboarding's story—traveling the world in search of snow, following the storm for as long as it takes, capturing the spirit of progression, scouting new talent, and speaking in a language of images. He's widely respected for bringing an element of true creativity to snowboard photography. If the early '90s was an era of stock action photos, Trevor was off testing flashes on the deck of the pipe in the icy New England night and shooting his crew of East Coast compatriots like Todd Richards, Jason Ford and Craig Kelly—creating a pile of unique, atmospheric photos that stand on their own even today…
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