ISSUE 3 WINTER 17
/ GROUNDERS YOUTH RENAISSANCE
THE TEAM CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER ART DIRECTOR
ASHNA MISRA KATRINA LARSON
DESIGN
JORDAN ANTHONY TATE
CREATIVE CONSULTING
SEJAAN ARORA SANWAL DANIELLE MASTRONARDI
MARKETING
ADRIAN YONG JESSICA SPIGOTT
CONTENTS PREFACE ....................................................................................................................3 OLIVIA SORLEY...........................................................................................................5 YURIY KYRZOV...........................................................................................................11 JESSE DELPHIN JAMES BULMAN...........................................................................17 SABRINA BRIGDEN..................................................................................................23 AMY BRERETON........................................................................................................27 IMARRI TOWNSEND..................................................................................................33 STEVEN SHEPHERD.................................................................................................39 MICHAEL FOWLER....................................................................................................45 BEN EVELY................................................................................................................49 MADISON DIDOMENICANTONIO..............................................................................55 AFIF SLIM..................................................................................................................61 NICK PINTO...............................................................................................................67 DAVAUN FRANCIS.....................................................................................................73 COVER SHOOT...........................................................................................................77
JESSE DELPHIN JAMES BULMAN
Age: 20 IG: @jessedelphinjames Location: Vancouver, Canada
Jesse finds the culmination of mood and environment beautiful. He finds that a thing is rarely beautiful in isolation but rather it is beautiful because of where it is and how it connects to its environment. This sentiment is evident throughout Jesse’s work which often personifies nature via double exposures. Unlike film where the creator has time to create a story, a picture has an instant to show the beginning and end. Jesse’s work leaves worlds for an audience to ponder and create their own story in.
SABRINA BRIGDEN
Age: 20 IG: @paelserpoetry Location: Vancouver, Canada
couples therapy love is the ups and downs of natural geography, the only two feelings when standing in the shadow of a mountain:
1. your iris is the northern lights to me
2. my freckles are grains of sand to you.
let’s be realistic, dear. revolution I guess we were never in the same place
I drove by a neon sign
after all
bouncing off the pavement, reflecting on our car bottoms and the fact there used to be trees and wondered why if we’re supposed to be happy then why are we all so god damned sad
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this has been written before monuments entitled Notions of Home were built before we grew too fast branding themselves onto favourite kinds of weather and how photograph albums should be organized I believe that every generation is lost we have never invented anything new rainy twilight on windows and unfolded maps have always left the perfect prospect of succession farther and farther out of youth
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NICK PINTO
Age: 21 IG: @pintobeaner Location: Vancouver, Canada
Nick Pinto has a rather mysterious persona. An experimental DJ and engineering student, he enjoys trying new things. This series of images was a beautiful and complete accident. After developing the film, Nick discovered that he had already used the roll ten years prior at a summer camp. The contrast of perspectives, places, people, and contexts have created an incredible series a decade in the making.
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Publication Š 2017 GROUNDERS All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the publisher. Editing and Design by GROUNDERS team Printed in the USA by Smart Press Library and Archives Canada Cataloging in Publication GROUNDERS Team; with contributions from Olivia Sorley, Yuriy Kyrzov, Jesse Delphin James Bulman, Sabrina Brigden, Amy Brereton, Imarri Townsend, Steven Shepherd, Michael Fowler, Ben Evely, Madison DiDomencantonio, Afif Slim, Nick Pinto, Davaun Francis.
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