DOGPISS ISSUE #5

CRAIG DODDS / RUBEN MORAIS CLAUDINO / JOHN CARDIEL / WITCHGATHERER / PHOTOPARLOUR / JODI ROGERS / LEO GRIFFIN / AIDAN COOK / GEORGINA RAMSAY

DOGPISS ISSUE 5

FRANCIS PETERS

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EDITOR : BEN HAIZELDEN LAYOUT & DESIGN : BEN HAIZELDEN contributors: CRAIG DODDS John Finucane JAMES A HUDSON AIDAN COOK WITCHGATHERER ( ANDREW LEBOS) JODI ROGERS DANIEL T WHEELER RUBEN MORAIS CLAUDINO GEORGINA RAMSAY Tom Quigley bruce mcclure JIM GRAINGER JAKE STOODLEY rob salmon TIM SMITH SAM ROBERTS BE FARQUHAR CLAUDIA GIBBONS ben haizelden sincerest thanks to contributed to or magazine in

all who have supported the any way.

PHOTOGRAPHER INTERVIEW & FEATURE WITH

CRAIG DODDS PHOTOGRAPHER FEATURE

RUBEN MORAIS CLAUDINO 10 QUESTIONS WITH

JOHN CARDIEL

artist features from

AIDAN COOK JODI ROGERS WITHGATHERER GEORGINA RAMSAY LEO GRIFFIN

THE PHOTO PARLOUR INTERVIEW WITH

DANIEL T WHEELER FOR SUBMISSIONS OR ANY QUERIES PLEASE EMAIL: cover photograph: RUBEN MORAIS CLAUDINO skater: RODGRIGO GOMES

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CRAIG DODDS

PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURE AND INTERVIEW I was born and bred in Ireland but I soon grew tired of the constant rain and wind and set up shop in the never ending sunshine and warmth of Barcelona.

Back home the spots are weathered, cracked and mostly broken, over here though, they glimmer and shine enough to make you want to skate just about anything that crosses your path.

Paradise can come at a price sometimes, with cheap thrills, and even cheaper booze and not to mention a much broader skate scene it can be difficult finding the same vibe you once knew from back home… But in the end you make your own fun, you can’t take things so seriously especially in somewhere as vibrant as this.

My two main loves in life are skateboarding and photography.

Both intertwined perfectly for me when I came into contact with photography shortly after I first picked up a skateboard.

I can’t remembering the defining moment but something about watching my friends fly through the air and flipping their boards became so addictive to me, I had to capture it perfectly. I still struggle with that process ha ha.

I’ve had my dreams shattered a number of times, but mostly my wishes have come true on this long bumpy road I embarked upon with photography.

It has been a struggle to see myself as a valid addition to the wider world of skateboarding media producers but people have constantly reassured me otherwise, thank you to all of them for the support.

Through magazines, websites, exhibitions, video interviews, and most recently having my own series of decks through 14:01 Skateboards, to whom I’m forever grateful for giving me the opportunity (shout out Lloyd!) It’s all becoming a pretty unbelievable ride. I can only hope this momentum continues to build as I’m definitely not ready to start shooting weddings just yet. craig dodds

2018.

MICHEAL

B S

TA I L S L I D E

CHEESE / BS LIPSLIDE

INTERVIEW BY BEN HAIZELDEN So Craig youre from Belfast in Northern Ireland, hows the skate scene there for those unfamiliar?

Belfast is a relatively small city; it’s only recently got back on its feet after the 30 tough years of sectarian violence it faced. Now it’s a new place, a far cry from its previous existence. Through all this I feel it has made the city a more open and caring place. This definitely shines through in the skateboarding community. There’s so much love for everyone not just in Belfast but in Ireland as a whole, we’re one big family, constantly in contact and working together to help benefit each other and skateboarding.

How long after picking up a board did you start making photographs?

I honestly feel like it could have happened around the same time. I would always buy skateboard magazines when I was younger before I even knew what skateboarding was really about. I just loved the photos and the fact it was this mysterious new thing to me that people seemed to either really love or really hate. Originally I started off making little edits and shooting here and there but I quickly realised how tedious it was to film people so I knocked that on the head. Nowadays I’m filming more than I’m shooting photos haha.

Beyond your skate photography you also seem to have taken a real interest in documentary work. You submitted quite a few drug related images for inclusion in this feature.

Do you think this is avenue of research is something youll pursue?

I want to say that was a coincidence but I like photographing anything controversial it’s always a bit more thought provoking for people when they see it.

I like to play with people’s emotions when I’m shooting stuff outside of skateboarding. My documentary work is capturing a moment in time, you might say documenting a social history of the street and of the people on that street. I want people to see a side of life that they may not be familiar them.

I want them to feel both sides of the emotional spectrum. I want them to stop, to look, to take time to think, to feel, to come to their own conclusions, particularly if it’s something they may have simply ignored whilst walking on those streets.

I don’t always aim for the grim side of life, I try to include some beauty in there too because it’s not all bad out there. The good can just become a bit obscured sometimes in city life.

OLLIE O HANLON / BS FLIP

You now live in Barcelona. Hows that working out for you? Living the dream, or hand to mouth?

Any big city puts up some obstacles but I guess theyre a bit easier to swallow in such a beautiful place huh?

It’s working out really well! I’m used to the city now; this is my eighth time here! I really love it out here but of course sometimes it can get too much. The down sides are speaking very limited Spanish, pickpockets lurking on every corner and tough policing - they’ll fine you here for just about anything because they get a commission at the end of the month.

Putting all this aside the beach definitely helps. Barcelona is a fascinating place though, I get what people say that it’s been rinsed for skateboarding but that still doesn’t stop you bumping into pro skateboarders nearly everyday from all over the world. If you’re looking for a chilled time and just want to have fun you’re for sure in the right place.

Any plans for the future? Within your burgeoning photographic career, or just life goals in general you care to share?

Lots of ambitions but no set plans, I’m sort of just taking it as it comes for now I guess. I’ve tried for along time to get some sort of a job via skateboard photography and I’m slowly learning this might not be the reality I’ve dreamed off. That sounds pretty depressing haha, I guess I’ve accomplished what I really set out to do in the first place and that was to have my work appreciated by a wide audience, that’s a real dream come true for me.

I suppose working doing the thing you love the most is important, as long as you can make enough to get by! I think it’s important to push myself to be more creative in different ways to stop things becoming too stale.

What equipment do you use? Do you, like many these days, split you time between digital and analogue?

LEWIS THREADGOLD / NOSEGRIND TAILGRAB

Not necessarily on purpose but I find myself concentrating more on digital for skateboarding and film for anything outside of that. I still experiment the odd time with film and skateboarding but with my camera bag weighing upwards of 10 kilos there’s little to no room for any other cameras especially since I’ve taken up the role as filmer, the last available space has been occupied by a light and handle.

MARC BEGGAN / 360 FLIP

JOHNNY MATARAZZO / FS HEELFLIP

My digital camera is a Nikon D3S equipped with the best of both worlds, photo taking and filming. My analogue cameras mostly consist of point and shoots, I have the odd SLR but I rarely find time to use them outside of skating and with street photography a point and shoot is the silent assassin for absolute discreteness, my Olympus XA2 I recently bought is the king of this.

Do you have any favourite photographers? Within your non skate stuff could definitely see influence from photographers like Jim Goldberg and Larry Clark. That might just be the subject matter though. Do you have any guiding lights or are you exploring on your own terms?

To be honest, my favourite photographers are usually the people I meet in person either through their work or just by random. Once you get to know them a bit I feel their work begins to inspire you in a completely new way.

For skating it was three Irish photography legends, Stuart Robinson, Richard Gilligan and Jay Doherty. Their work ranges from skateboarding to street photography and they definitely helped open my mind after meeting them in person and talking to them about photography that was really inspiring for me.

I had always been fascinated by street photography, its mysteriousness and grim beauty always stood out like a sore thumb for me. The photos almost seemed dream like when I first became obsessed with it, the characters, the faces, the situations all seemed so foreign and yet so normal to everyone in everyday city life. What really opened my eyes to it was a documentary a friend insisted I watch called “Finding Vivian Maier”. It just blew my mind, from her style of street photography to the insight into her world and reasons behind capturing what she did. I just knew this was what I wanted to do.

Thanks for taking the time, any parting comments?

Thank you mate, stoked to be involved in the magazine. I just want to say thanks to anyone who has shown me support along the way. Means a lot to know there are people out there that want to see more of what I do. Also to every photographer along the way that’s ever given me a shot in their magazine or taken time out to give me advice. No idea how much it means to me, cheers!

MICHEAL / OLLIE UP THEN BONELESS

GABRIEL / KICKFLIP FAKIE

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INTERVIEW BY JACK THOMAS ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLAUDIA GIBBONS

INTERVIEWS

10 questions with john cardiel So, who are you and where are you from?

John Cardiel from Sacramento, California.

How did you get onto Antihero?

I was riding for black label at the time I had been travelling and skating together a lot with Julien Stranger. Deluxe asked him to start a new company and it was born with Julien,Sean Young,Bob Burnquist and me.

If Antihero went bust what board company would you move to, if any?

Most likely try to get back on Black Label if John Lucero would even let me??

Which Antihero team member are you the closest with?

Julien Stranger.

If you could make anyone pro for Antihero who would it be?

I dunno man our team fuckin rules,we just turned Austin Kanfoush pro so...

Austin Kanfoush!!!!

What felt better, becoming pro or being crowned SOTY? Definitely becoming pro, to see your name on a skateboard is pretty fucking amazing.

How did being crowned SOTY differ from being issued your first pro board?

It was crazy overwhelming because as a skater nobody is really better than anyone else so I didn’t necessarily like the target on my back.

You were a pro snowboarder before a pro skater, how was the transition from snow to asphalt?

I was a skateboarder first and foremost and becoming snowboarder was just a transition from riding hard filming and entering contests getting my name on a skateboard was way more impactful to me!

Would you change anything in your run as a pro skater so far?

I would change nothing, except for the fact I wish my body would let me do more.

Have you got any plans for the rest of your run perhaps 45 tricks at 45?

Nah man just living in the moment! 18 for Life!

FOR MORE SKATEBOARDING INTERVIEWS GO TO INSTAGRAM @10QUESTIONSWITH

Do you still snowboard at all?

Yeah sometimes. Snowboarding is fun, I try to always emulate skateboarding that’s what makes it dope, I really like it in the summertime when it’s warm and you don’t have to wear all the gear and the snow is slushy.

ANDREW LEBBOS

Witch hunts happen when countries’ monarchs would fear loss of power and respect. to avoid rebellions they would cause hysteria and allow people to hold witch trials.

That has nothing to do with the witch gatherer or his art but he’s the type of friend you would burn at the stake.

Saying this, I do enjoy his work so much I put some on my body, the wife hates it . his sinister images burn into your minds eye.

With bold black lines, and hip jazzy images he will put a spell on you. jake stoodley

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-So what’s your background?, how did you come to be running a traditional darkroom in the digital age?

Its a kinda weird beginning really, my background was in music originally. I studied music production and engineering and i’ve been playing in band since i was a kid but i always had a love of photography and enjoyed using cameras. When i was doing my work experience at school when i was about 13 i worked at a photo studio and they had an onsite colour darkroom. These were kind of essential back then as most studios previewed work on polaroid cos it was cheap and then committed to colour film once they’d got things looking how they wanted. I ended up going to college and studying music, art, print making and photography.

I failed photography but i’m pretty certain thats because i ignored the coursework and spent my time using the darkrooms and the recording studios. This was around the time that digital cameras became available but they were pretty crappy so i just stuck with the darkroom stuff and learnt the basics of making a silver gelatine print.

Anyway, i did music for years after that but i was still making work on film and working on building sites to keep a roof over my head and film in my camera. I heard there was a job going at the college i used to attend in the tech department so i went for it and became the music tech. The darkrooms i had grown to love when i was a student had been to left to rack and ruin so i decided to get them working again and get students using them again. This was my introduction into running darkrooms and understanding all the chemical stuff. It also gave me a darkroom to teach in and hone my skills in my lunch breaks and after hours.

After that we moved sites several times, this means i’ve built about 3 large darkrooms in education as well as all the little ones i had in houses and stuff. A pretty good grounding for what i’m doing now.

THE PHOTO PARLOUR

The Photo Parlour is a traditional photographic darkroom and studio based in NOTTINGHAM.

AN INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL T WHEELER

INTERVIEW BY BEN HAIZELDEN

DANIEL T WHEELER BY JIM GRAINGER

-So what inspired you to start the photoParlour. Had it been a long term goal of yours?

Primarily, the thing that inspired me to start The Photo Parlour was that i needed somewhere to print that wasn’t at work or in the attic of my house!

Its difficult to make decent prints when you’re limited by time and space. i’d been thinking about setting up a place for ages but didn’t really have the means to set anything up. The thing that really made it possible and spurred me on to make it successful, without meaning to get too morbid, was the fact that my mum had a terminal illness. Before she died she gave me a couple of grand as my inheritance and asked what i was going to do with it. I told her i wasn’t sure wether to start a darkroom or buy a Leica... its kinda obvious which one she advised me to do. Life is too short not to take risks to enable you to enjoy what you do for a living.

-For any of the readers out there considering duplicating your venture what were the challenges you faced setting it up?, both financial and logistically? Did you manage to secure funding from any organisations?

I guess the biggest issue i faced when setting the place up was trying to work out how the hell it would work as a business! There weren’t an other places like it so i had to start from the ground up.

Remember, all i wanted to begin with was a darkroom to use but i couldn’t afford the rent by myself. I figured if i ran some sort of membership then maybe someone else might want to use it and it grew from there. All the money i got from my mum went on plasterboard, timber, cable and plumbing. I’m lucky that i’m handy from working on building sites and all my family are trades people in some form so i had a bit of help from them and my friends getting the place set up.

At this point i was just running my little darkroom in Derby and working 5 days a week in my tech job at the college. I’d be there most evenings and weekends printing or providing space and for others. I’d also be running workshops at weekends to keep things ticking over. I was very lucky to find that one of my darkroom hero’s lived down the street, an absolute genius and mentor called John Blakemore. He taught me a completely different level of darkroom printing as well as different perspective on photography. I slowed down a lot after becoming friends with John and started to think about work as a sequence and images in a book. It was a real game changer.

Anyway, i was pootling along and then a guy called Mick Payne called me one day and asked if id be interested in taking over his lab in Nottingham?!

I didn’t even know how to react, I mean, how does that even work?! I went and had a look and fell in love with the place.

Took out a loan and quit my job to focus on it full time.

It was a pretty risky thing to do but i’m SO glad i did it. When you have a reasonable comfortable job and a monthly pay check its easy to just stay there and ride it out but i saw it as a once in a lifetime opportunity. I ran the Derby and Nottingham facilities at the same time for a while but it nearly killed me so decided to amalgamate it into one space at Nottingham. I haven’t had any other funding but the loan and the money my mum left me, its more about making ties with places like Nottingham Trent Uni and New Art Exchange that have helped keep things ticking over and opened doors for me.

I guess the biggest thing i’ve learn’t business wise is to diversify. I offer loads of services other than darkroom hire and the lab. I teach almost everyday, i have gallery and studio hire, i do some corporate stuff occasionally and run loads of social stuff too. I also have a lot of support from an amazing group of volunteers, family, friends and my very wonderful partner Amy. I would be able to do it without them.

Now that you’ve been going for a while what has been the most rewarding moment? You must of seen some very happy faces developing their first darkroom print eh?

Theres been a few really lovely things that have happened over the years. I guess the most immediate is teaching people how to print and seeing them develop their first print in the trays, its still amazing after all this time. I’ve also been very fortunate to be involved in some community based stuff. Skate Nottingham were in recently doing workshops and held an exhibition in the space. It was really rewarding to see young people making exciting work, they really nailed it. Chris and Simon at Skate Nottingham are total heros. I also did some work for Jess and Hannah at the Refugee Forum and had an amazing time, one of the participants made an amazing photogram from his jelly sandals. I think i learn something on almost every workshop i run!

What do you feel is traditional photographic

to be gained equipment over

by using digital ?

i don’t feel there’s anything to be gained, i think its just an aesthetic thing. I use film because i love the process of it. I like the quality of a silver gelatine print and i like making them and taking my time.

I think digital photography is really important and there are some amazing and important photographers using it. Its quick and its easy and its cheap. I guess the long and short of it is, i use film because id struggle to produce the outcome i want without spending a fortune on a digital camera and a state of the art inkjet printer. I also find making hand prints in the darkroom a therapeutic thing and i enjoy using large format cameras and the ritual of it all. Whatever camera you have on you, wether that be digital or film, that’s the best camera for the job.

What sort of people use your facilities? Must be a varied bunch?

Its a pretty broad church here at the Photo Parlour. We have a rolling membership of over 30 people using both the colour and black and white darkrooms.

We have people travelling over from further afield to do the workshops and people travelling across the UK to use the colour printing facilities as its super rare to find a colour darkroom to hire.

One important thing i want to say is that everyone here is supportive and constructive and nice. There is a strict “no dickhead” rule here and we are totally inclusive of everyone. I also try and keep gear chat to a minimum.

Obviously everyone likes to show off their new camera or whatever BUT when it veers into camera club territory i try and steer the conversation on to making pictures and photography.

Amateur photography has been in the hands of bearded, 90’s glamour photographers for too long and its time to take it back!

DOGPISS WOULD LIKE TO THANKS DANIEL FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT FOR THIS INTERVIEW.

PHOTO PARLOUR CAN BE CONTACTED AT: Unit 8, 18 Queensbridge Rd, Nottingham NG2 1NB 0115 986 7776 thephotoparlour@gmail.com

Georgie is an artist and Sansa Stark lookalike currently based in Brighton.

ARTIST FEATURE

GEORGINA RAMSAY

INSTAGRAM @georgieramsayy

INSTAGRAM @GEORGIERAMSAYY

JOHN HOWLETT / FS NOSESLIDE / NORWICH

TWO PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROB SALMON INSTAGRAM @EASTERNSKATEMAG

TOM ODRISCOLL / OLLIE FROM WALL TO BANK / LOWE

TOM QUIGLEY

TWO PHOTOGRAPHS BY

ADAM GAUCHER / FS 180 DERBY / UK

INSTAGRAM @VARIALZINE /TOMQUIGLEY

JOE HINSON / 5050 NOTTINGHAM / UK

KIERAN MC DONNELL

WALLRIDE

TWO PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM SMITH

INSTAGRAM: TIMO_SMITHO

JOSH WHITEHEAD / NOLLIE 360 FLIP HUDDERSFIELD / UK

DANIEL ‘TURKEY’ MURPHY / 5050 PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES WHITLOCK

INSTAGRAM @JPFPHOTOS

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN P FINUCANE JM MARTIN / NOSESLIDE POP OVER SEOUL / KOREA

PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN HAIZELDEN

YEAH? DEAN LANE AGAIN? YEAH! ALSO THIS WAS INSTAGRAM BEFORE. FUCK IT

CLEVER RYAN / OVER THE GAP

JONO COOTE / HEELBLOCK MELON PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ROBERTS

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JODI ROGERS

PHOTOGRAPHER FEATURE

JODI ROGERS

ACCOMPANYING WORDS BY JAMES

A HUDSON

Why would a good street skater make a good street photographer?

Not only are their ‘places of work’ the same, but the street photographer and street skater also share the feeling of constant potential confrontation.

Skating your way through pedestrians, push chairs, market stalls and bits of dodgy road surface either just to get somewhere, or in a run up for hitting a bench or planter, is not so different to walking along with your camera held tightly, but discreetly, and ready to use. Both situations require constant scanning and second guessing people’s moves. And in the back of your mind is the knowledge that any one of these people you are rolling past or raising your camera towards has the potential to go totally apeshit at you.

You are not supposed to be there.

Skaters should not be skating on the street, they should get in a car and go to a sanctioned and insured sports facility where they can practice for the olympics wearing their Nike or Adidas sports shoes. And photographers should not be wielding cameras in peoples faces in public areas, hell no, they should be out in field waiting for a nice sunset or sat on a stool with a flask of tea and a camera with a long lens pointed at a cricket stump. Actually I think that last situation is Wig Worland’s dream job...

Jodi Rodgers is a skater and a photographer. Like Ed Templeton or Matt Stuart he knows what being out on the street has the potential to deliver - whether he is rolling on his board or walking with his camera.

Confrontation is the risk but if street skating and street photography were without risk then everybody would be good at it.

JAMES A. HUDSON

INSTAGRAM

@jodi_r0gers

BEN FARQUHAR instagram@benfarquhar_

BRUCE MCCLURE instagram @thestrangestpetonearth ILLUSTRATION BY

POEM BY

Hi, I’m a portuguese skate photographer and i’m based in Lisbon, Portugal.

How long have you been skateboarding and shooting photos?

It all started with me skating when i was about 13 years, some years later (maybe 5, i think) i got a bad injury and because of that i couldnt skate for about 1 year and then i stared to go to the skatepark with my friends and start shoothing. Since those old days i havent stopped capturing these moments, and photography become one of my greatess passions.

Do you have any favourite photographers, skateboarding or otherwise?

Yeah sure! French Fred is the man!! one of my greatest inspirations! and Jake darwen, those are my favourite skate photographers! but i also have some skaters that inspire me to go out and shoot, like my good friend João Allen, he is such a great skater and person and Dylan made me realise that life is too short so lets capture every moment in order to make it eternal!

Is skateboarding your favourite thing to shoot, or are you interested in other subject matter ?

Yeah skateboarding has become my life, there’s so much we can learn with it! is no a sport its a culture, a way of life, in my opinion skateboarding made me the person i am today and who im gonna be tomorow! Of course i have some other subjects i Like to shoot , arquitecture it another thing that capture my attention, i like those lines, shadows and strange buildings!

Any plans for the future?

Yeah, continue skating till my legs fall apart, travel more, meet new people, make some exhibitions, and continue to capture this culture, this love, skateboarding!!

FILIPE CORDEIRO / WALLRIDE

PHOTOGRAPHER FEATURE

interview by ben haizelden

RUBEN MORAIS CLAUDINO

Hey Ruben so can you tell us a little about yourself ? Where are you from?

Where are you based ?

ALEX FURTADO / FS FLIP

TWO PHOTOGRAPHS OF

RODRIGO GOMES

KICKFLIP

5050

INSTAGRAM @rubenmoraisclaudino

MANEL SANTOS / FS BOARD

FIND MORE OF RUBENS WORK AT WWW.RUBENCLAUDINO.TUMBLR.COM/

DABADIE THEO / NOSESLIDE

PHOTOGRAPHER FEATURE

LEO GRIFFIN Some people get so involved in the technicalities of photography that they forget to take any pictures, much less communicate anything of value with them.

Leo uses his phone to make photographs and communicates the fuck out of stuff.

SEE MORE OF LEOS WORK ON INSTAGRAM

@LLLLLLLEEEEEEEOOOOOOO

STEPHEN LANSDOWNE / BS SMITH

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES ‘CHIN’ COLLINS

BAZ DAN / BS BONELESS / DEAN LANE BRISTOL PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN HAIZELDEN

YEAH I KNOW. MORE PHOTOS OF DEAN LANE! WHAT THE FUCK ? I DONT GO ANYWHERE ELSE, SHOOT ME!

BEAR / BS 360 /

DEAN LANE BRISTOL

PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN HAIZELDEN

PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN HAIZELDEN

FINBAR HERRITY / ST GEORGE BRISTOL

AIDAN COOK

ARTIST FEATURE AND

AT WWW. Z R O N G . C O . U K

@AIDANCOOKORDEATH

FIND MORE OF AIDANS WORK I N S T A G R A M