Bailgun Mag #20

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SKATEBOARD MAGAZINE

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found footage: the Library of Congress PHOTOGRAPHER

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), three-quarter length portrait, holding and looking down at camera, facing slightly left DATE

between 1940 and 1952 MEDIUM

gelatin silver RIGHTS INFO

No known restrictions on publication REPOSITORY

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

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editorial EDITOR IN CHIEF GERD RIEGER

“I thought California would be different”, street plaza, Encinitas, Ca.

Travelling is one of the best things you can do, you meet new people and see new places and as a skateboarder you get to skate to new and ­different spots with a different crew. And if you‘re a ­photographer you also get to shoot new faces, spots, tricks and whatnot. If you combine the three – travel, skate, photography you get a pretty damn good combination.

For this issue Bailgun took another trip to California early 2015 to escape the nasty Euro winter and enjoy the spots and nice weather of California.

Enjoy, Gerd

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max schaaf

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emilio

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Channel street

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spotcheck

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skateistan

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kyle gallagher

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malmö vert attack

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analog stories

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analog cameras

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LINCOLN UEDA flying over Steve Caballero at the El Gato Classic vert demo in Palm Springs.

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max INTERVIEW & PHOTOGRAPHY

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Name: Max Schaaf Age: Fortythree Town: Oakland, CA When did you start building bikes?

I started collecting parts around 1998-1999, I thought it would be cool to build a bike before Y2K, because the world was gonna explode. And at that time I was just trying to collect parts and information of how to do it and that‘s what kinda sparked it and I think I finished my first bike around 2000. Around 2004 it got more serious and I also started 4Q, not really as a company but more like an idea. I painted it on the side of the gas tank as just a way to say „Fuck you“ without having it be so obvious. Old bikers knew what it meant. Vietman vets have told me they would write 4Q on their fighting helmets or there‘s an old biker out here, he said he always put 4Q on his bikes and if the cops or people knew what it meat at least you were not quite so obvious.

And then I just got obsessed with the bikes, like I think skaters do with stuff.

Did you take classes for welding, painting, etc.?

I went to school for paint, because the paint stuff is chemistry, you really need to know mixtures and dry times… That‘s all on Youtube and probably in books as well but as equipment is expensive… …in America one good thing is we have community collage, you pay fucking 35 bucks and when all your friends are drinking down at the bar you‘re able to learn how to do something.

My Mom is a bartender… I like to go to bars now, but when I was in my twentys, I was avoiding that shit and trying to learn.

I took business classes and other classes, I wish I would have taken more writing classes because I like writing, but we can take a class if we what it, so I took some welding, simple shit, more to just get comfortable and then how do we learn? We learn on our own, we fuck up, then we fuck up and then we kinda get it. There‘s a lot people that are

MAX SCHAAF in his workshop, Oakland California

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much more talented then me at this stuff, I just know what I like and other people are just trying… you know a motorcycle that looks like a rocket ship or a skateboarder that‘s like fuck how many times did the board flip, you know what I mean, it does not appeal. You know Chris Miller doing a lien air or an old Harley Davidson panhead, classics you know, it‘s forever.

What kind of bikes do you like?

I really like, I guess they‘re called choppers, but now you might think choppers like… (makes ape hanger guesture), I like a certain style of chopper from the ` 60‘s but I like new bikes too, there‘s certain things I nerd out on. But my style is, if someone told you, it would be like a 60‘s style, which involves 1936 Harley motors form `36 to about `69 but into the `70‘s were cool.

When the bikes got real long and a little bit too flamboyant, that‘s where I kinda loose interest for that shit.

But old Triumphs are cool, old BMW‘s are cool, I mean they‘re all cool, but I‘m an American, so fucking Harley Davidson you know.

Influence on bike building: I was influenced by Jason Jesse, of course because he had a chopper and he was a skater, then I kinda ran with that into my own direction because Jason is Jason and nobody can be that dude.

I have buddies and I love what they are doing, guys you don‘t know and then the old 60‘s shit when you look through and old Time Magazine and there happens to be an article of some crazy fucker that robbed the bank on his chopper and you look at the chopper and you‘re like fuck…

Just old images from the 60‘s are cool …

I love being an American I think we‘re petty lucky with like skateparks and motorcycles and the freedom that we have to express ourselves is pretty unreal, I‘m inspired by that too.

And just by America history, I‘m not trying to live in the past, like I have a cell phone, I listen through blue tooth to a speaker, but I really do like old American stuff, my stove is from the 50‘s, my car is from

the 60‘s, it‘s shit that was made so well and when you look at it there‘s a certain feeling involved with it.

Sometimes I‘m embarrassed as anyone is probably, of their country, you wanna run and move to the woods and never talk to anyone again.

Everything is comfortable now, your car is supposed to make no noise, you don‘t feel the weather, it tells you the time, everything is real save and simple, I think skating is dangerous, motorcycles are dangerous and live is dangerous, you should pay attention you should be aware of it and I think that old stuff kinda makes you pay more attention a little bit more. When I‘m in a bad mood, I get in the car maybe get the dog in there and I go for a drive and you know it‘s therapy, I have to pay attention, I kind of stay focused, I look at some of those people around here and they‘re walking around in space …

And why do we need new stuff all the time? Like, just rebuild it, take it apart, put it together again.

Like Volkswagen Bugs, it‘s the peoples car, pull the motor, you can do it in a day, put a new one in, it was made for the civilian to work on, I admire that so much. And that‘s what I like.

Pop the hood on a new car… What‘s happening???

Influence on skating: There‘s always your local guys, like Julian Stranger and John Cardiel, like people I got to travel with… as far as vert skating Chris Miller, Jeff Grosso….

I actually really liked Bod Boyle and Ross Goodman, dudes like that, JJ Rodgers, people that looked like they worked on their own car and skated, you know, kinda a outsider kinda thing.

But yeah I mean, the best ever probably Chris Miller.

We skaters are obsessed with things, we stare at magazines, it‘s your life, it‘s what you think about, like you‘re eating dinner with your chick and you think about I wanna try a back smith on the extention or whatever. I distracted myself with motorcycles because I needed a break from skateboarding. I skateboarded at my ramp at my house 7 days a week, every day, by myself many days. When I found the bikes it was

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something new and a cool way to express yourself. I shed a tear on the bike looking into the sunset, I built this fucking bike, the world is perfect, right? But nothing is as perfect as the ramp and your friends and like scaring the shit out of yourself!

Getting old and still being able to do it I mean, skating is… it rules, and I think we‘re taking over the world. I believe in skateboarding and I believe in skaters, like skaters make cool art, skaters make good music, skaters build bikes you know, it‘s a cool thing! Just look at how threatened people are by skaters.

Ever met a dude who‘s chick got taken by a skater? They‘re fucking furious because we‘re fucking skaters, we‘re creative and you

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help your friend up, off the ground. I mean, I can admit I tried to deny that for a while, 10 years ago, because my body hurt and I was just kinda over it. But it welcomed me back, with a few slams and it‘s what I think about so much, you know, I think if the world skateboarded, the whole world skateboarded it would be a better place! That‘s it.

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Watch the exclusive video: vimeo.com/max-schaaf Check out Max‘s blog: 4qconditioning.blogspot.de

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MAX, ollie to Monty Grind from low to high

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TAIL SLIDE low to high at the Berkley vert-ramp

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emilio INTERVIEW & PHOTOGRAPHY GERD RIEGER

EMILIO, diy gap Ollie in somewhere in San Diego

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Name: Emilio Fernandez Age: Twentythree Town: Puerto Vallarta Mexico

When did you start skating?

Best road trip?

I can‘t remember when I started skating, but my dad was the one who got me on my first board.

I always saw my dads magazines, it was mostly vert skating, big and tweaked airs, sooo rad.

I was influenced by my dad, Nacho Heredia, el hijin y el enano.

We went to Durango to skate the biggest full pipe ever, near a small town in the middle of nowhere… it was Bailey, Renol, Gerardo and a group of locals, we drove for like 7 ours, then we worked for like 3 hours and then skated it for like 2 hours...

What‘s the local scene like?

The local scene in Mexico is a baby growing up super slowly, ahaha…

Our parks are shitty, and there‘s sketchy spots...

Remember your first road trip?

I probably had a blast but I can´t remember witch one was the first one, but im sure it was with Guadalajara homeboys, we went to a small town named Tepatitlan, and skated this huge college... We ended up selling our skateboards for gas money...

Favorite spots: Washington St! It was amazing seeing all that perfection of concrete building, and all that big skate industry, and talents.

Collecting bikes: My dad had been collecting Schwinns for years, I guess that‘s why I like looking for old bikes too, I like the Stingray models cause it‘s a kids beach cruiser model.

Favorite one?

Its hard to chose one.. I like all of them...

SMITHGRIND on the rail at Washington Street

EMILIO on one of his Schwinn Collectables

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SCHWINN STINGRAY from Emilio‘s collection

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FRONTSIDE OLLIE onto the pillar at WSVT

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RILEY STEVENS, frontside invert

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chan nel stre et PHOTOGRAPHY JOACHIM BECKERT TEXT RICK FABRO

OSCAR NAVARRO, Crail slide

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RICK FABRO, Madonna

Rick Fabro grew up in this skate park under the bridge.

He was kind enough to write us a few words:

Channel St. Skatepark is where I grew up and learned to skate. Channel St. Skatepark is in San Pedro, California. I actually started skating street on my block until I heard about Channel.

The first time I went there I loved the place. All I would do is skate the outside wall because I wasn‘t that good. Channel is where I meet all of my friends that I now call my brothers.

Ronnie Sandoval, Oscar Navarro, Robbie Russo. Grew up with these people. All we did was push eachother every day we skated. Some of

the craziest sessions I‘ve ever seen went down here. Channel made me who I am today. The friends I have, the people I know, the sponsors I have. Weird to think that most of my life was spent here under a bridge. Channel has recently been closed down for a month because Caltrans is doing construction on the freeway above. The park was reopened in February but they are going to close it again for a year some time soon.

I dont know what I would be right now without this park.

CHANNEL STREET CREW, Riley Stevens, Oscar Navarro & Rick Fabro

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Keep Skate in the Hands of

eboarding...

Skateboarders

INTERVIEW & PHOTOGRAPHY GERD RIEGER

spot check The Yard – Palm Springs

HADEN MCKENNA, early releasing a lien disaster

ZACH LEWIS, huge stalefish in the deep end

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PAT NGOHO, backside air

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SPOTCHECK, The Yard Palm Springs

The same weekend as Eddie Elguera held the El Gato Classic in Palm Springs, Jeremiah Risk had some heated sessions in his backyard where he build a skaters dream a couple years ago. All weekend skaters stopped by to shred the curved walls of The Yard.

Thanks to Jeremiah for the great weekend!

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JEREMIAH RISK, crawl slide in his backyard

OVERVIEW, The Yard with after session bondfire

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project: skatei stan When I first heard that people were introducing skateboarding to children in war torn Afghanistan, I balked at the idea and thought, “why not just give paintbrushes to elephants?”

PHOTOGRAPHY SKATEISTAN

TEXT LENORE SPARKS

After all, skateboarding usually requires at least a sidewalk or a paved road and sadly, the Taliban and the Americans did a damn good job demolishing that likelihood.

However, it turns out that elephants are extraordinary painters when given a canvas, paint, and encouragement. Google it. And as unlikely as it may seem, the children of Afghanistan are becoming remarkable skateboarders thanks to a nonprofit called Skateistan and the encouragement from the entire world skateboard community.

Afghanistan has been at war for over twenty years.

It is home to roughly 32 million people, and is sandwiched between a rock and a hard place: Iran and Pakistan in South-Central Asia. Remote and mountainous, this ravaged country is internally struggling with Western and Russian influence while trying to maintain an Islamic and nomadic way of life. This juxtaposition is exactly why I initially denied Skateistan a chance. Why introduce the children to a “worldly” sport that is deeply rooted in Western culture? That is exactly the key. Turns out, skateboarding is not a sport.

Women are generally 2nd class- or worse- citizens in Afghanistan. Often, they are cloaked in flowing Burkas. School is nearly out of the question for young girls, and many of them live their entire lives not knowing the pleasures of reading gems like “Harry Potter” or any Grisham novel. They are not allowed to play spectator sports, such as football, because nonrelated males might see them. Precisely where this misogynistic ideology fails the women of Afghanistan, skateboarding succeeds. Skateboarding is not a spectator sport in the eyes of the male governing bodies, thus young girls are allowed to skateboard and are once again granted the right to play, to move, to challenge themselves just like the boys.

Oliver Percovich is an Australian born hero that ingeniously noted this loophole while on a trip to Afgha-

nistan. Young women and girls were begging him for money on the streets, and being a typical skateboarder, he didn’t have loads of cash to fork over. Instead, he let them borrow his skateboard and he showed them how to push. Oliver saw the absolute joy skateboarding brought the girls, and Afghanistan became his new home. Oliver built an enormous, modern skatepark in the Olympic village of Kabul where girls and boys alike can grab a facility-provided skateboard and helmet, take skate lessons, and also attend school. Local employees pick the children up off the streets or from their homes and bus them to the facility each day. The Olympic park is guarded and is perhaps the safest place the children encounter on a regular basis.

Skateboarding gives us a purpose and a community no matter where we are. Sometimes that purpose is to slappy grind a curb in Venice Beach; other times the purpose is to escape the oppression of poverty and war in a conflict state. Skateistan offers this escape to children in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa through donations from skateboard companies, governments all over Europe, and from the sales of books and merchandise on their website purchased by ordinary skateboarders or supporters from around the globe.

They hire locals to oversee each aspect of the operation, which provides jobs and a new sense of purpose to the local community.

If you want to get involved, check out skateistan. org. Warning: This website is highly inspirational.

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Check out the website: skateistan.org

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CHANGING LIVES THROUGH S K AT E B O A R D I N G A N D E D U C AT I O N

Skateistan is an award-winning charity that uses skateboarding to connect youth to educational opportunities. We work in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa, focusing on at-risk youth. Over 40% of our students are girls. More information at:

SKATEISTAN.ORG

FRONTSIDE PIVOT in his sisters backyard with the „builders hat“ on

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kyle INTERVIEW & PHOTOGRAPHY GERD RIEGER

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FRONTSIDE ROCK‘N ROLL on the extension

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Name: Kyle Gallagher Age: Twentyeight Job: Gallagher Concrete Construction When and how did you start skating?

My dad was 19, he skated the Olympic size pool at his college at Chico state, I was in his nuts. Later when I developed into human form, got my first board around 3 or 4 knee pushing buttbombing, I never stopped.

When and how did you start building concrete?

Did you start building with wood first?

Washington Street was being built, I knew these guys were the gnarly guys, they came to Oceanside and poured some rough trannies in rough spots. A couple years later I got dropped off at Mammoth skatepark, started to volunteer and after two weeks started to get paid. At that point it was on, they opened my eyes, concrete can be anything you can imagine.

Favorite projects you have worked on?

Gman through a half bag of mortar on my head when I was 16, Washington street.

Donny punched my eye with hot sauce on his fist, Aztec New Mexico.

A bear broke in the window where I slept in the camper to eat the smoked salmon, Mammoth Mountain Barefoot Mikes in Oceanside, Ca. Valley Center skate spot, funnest skatepark in SD Right now. Slobs swimmer and Kevin‘s. The list goes on.....

What‘s your favorite terrain to skate? Parks? Backyard pools?

Private skate pools?

Skated my first pool in sixth grade, I got an issue of pool dust with Dyke on the cover rollin in on a 70‘s board, this changed it all,

got the pool fever. Always loved skating skateparks and bowls, but pools have always been my fixation. Just the other day I had a tweaker who‘s house burned down throwing golf clubs at me over the house into the pool. Empty pools are the biggest rush, you can get on a skateboard. Every one is unique to skate, as well as crazy places people and situations you can be in.

How much creative freedom do you have designing a park?

It‘s probably pretty hard to make everybody happy.

We specialize in private skateboard projects, this gives us the ability to build what we know will be good instead of being held back by a skatepark designer who doesn‘t skate or city officials who know absolutely nothing about skateparks or skateboarding.

In some scenarios, we are able to build what we want at the city skateparks which results in happy skateboarders.

Favorite spots?

Genes bowl in Atwater Ca. Boom

Last words, shout outs, etc. ....

All the guys who gave me shit when I was still a shit, Oceanside crew, WSVT, Sizer, Scoot, Lincoln, Bart, Slob, Don Pinzotti, Sweatpants Rye, Jake, Chava, Valley Center skate spot posse, anybody out there building rad skate spots. Our plans are to build skateparks that are on acid and steroids.

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Check out Kyle‘s work: gallagherconcrete.net

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malmö TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHY GERD RIEGER

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THE PRISONER John Magnusson on multiple duties

MALMÖ, Vert Attack Nine

To save you from another boring contest article from one of the best vert contests there is, enjoy the photos and make sure to check the link of the gallery for more action. See you at next year at Vert Attack-X.

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Check out a gallery with more rad photos from malmö here: storehouse.co/stories/p7xfz-malmo-vert-attack-ix

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WORKING HARD BEHIND THE SCENES The Bryggeriet-Crew

MIKE FRASIER The definition of power – tacknie knee invert

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LIZZY ARMANTO Front side invert over the channel

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01 // Out & About

06 // brand eins

Like a photographic diary by Ari Marcopoulos wandering through the streets of New York

A different kind of business magazine. Intresting stories and hardly any boring figures.

02 // From Polaroid To Impossible and The Polaroid Book Two books full of polaroids from various artists taken with all kinds of different polaroid cameras and films.

03 // Du Swiss Art magazine with a special about the brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado

04 // Skateistan Very nice book about the skateistan project with tons of photos and information about the project. Support!

05 // Monster Children

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Skateboarding, music, photography, arts, interviews and great layout from down under.

08 // Baustop Magazine From the members of the legendary boardstein mag, this book is all about travelling, building concrete and of course skating.

09 // Confussion Truly international skateboard magazine by Jonathan Hay that features concrete shredding from all over the world.

10 // Bailgun Yeah, you can print Bailgun, too!

11 // Parallel Keeping up the print with lots of black and white images and a stylish layout.

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01 // Pentax 6 × 7

06 // Nikon Nikonos V

Alternative to Hasselblad in the 6 × 7. Photographers like Peter Lindberg shot iconic images of the nineties supermodels with this one

Great camera for underwater and inwater action, but also perfect for bad weather or rough conditions, like in a desert sandstorm.

02 // Polaroid Auto 330

07 // Olympus Pen F

This series takes pack-film that is still produced by Fuji and is great for experimenting. You also get the negatives!

Smallest SLR camera using 35mm film. Designed by Maitani Yoshihisa[ in a timeless look it features a rotary focal-plane shutter and uses the half frame format.

The portraits of Max Schaaf on this issues covers were shot with this one.

03 // Agfa Record II Classic 6 × 9 camera, from the german manufactur Agfa from the fifties with a folded bellow.

Shown here with a Watameter rangefinder it is still working great today.

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A variation of the legendary FM2, but with electronic shutter, an amazing 1/4000 sec. and x-sync 1/250.

05 // Canon Eos 1N This was the Canon professional flagship camera for years.

The design is inspired by the design-legend Luigi Colani.

08 // Revue 400 SE Very similar to the Minolta HiMatic 7sII, the Revue is a 35mm format camera introduced by the german catalog company Foto-Quelle in 1978. Equipped with a fixed lens (40mm 1.7) and a coupled rangefinder, the camera is the perfect point and shoot camera.

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Team EDITOR IN CHIEF Gerd Rieger (V.IS.d.P.) – gerd@bailgun.com EDITORS Axel Torschmied – axel@bailgun.com Dr. Lenore Sparks – lenore@bailgun.com ART DIRECTION Robert Rieger – robertrieger.com TRANSLATION John Young – europeskate.com WRITERS Lenore Sparks, Eric Muesahm PHOTOGRAPHERS Gerd Rieger – gerdrieger.com Axel Torschmied – torschmied.com CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGAPHERS Kyle Gallagher and Joachim Beckert CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Rick Fabro PRODUCTION sprocket-shooter.com

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“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

Karl Lagerfeld