27 Frames
My name is Zak, I’m a 6’5″ Canadian who has recently relocated from NYC to LA to act as the content editor for Outerknown.
I’ve been taking photos since I was a little kid, I started to turn a passion into a career when I broke my arm about 8 years ago and was kept out of the water. In desperate need of a hobby I started to really geek out on photography.
Both. I love shooting film, I think the photos always look better, the process is way more satisfying too. That being said, shooting digital allows me to make way more photos in way less time.
Recently, my friends Scotty and Kate Sherin got married last October and instead of hiring a wedding photographer he bought about 2 dozen of these bad boys and handed them out to everyone that wanted one.
The day after I got the camera, I was headed up to the Pacific Northwest to shoot Outerknown’s Fall 2016 campaign. I brought it with me there and shot a few frames, then I headed up to West Marin for Christmas, both places have a vastness I don’t get to see as often as I’d like to. Both areas are cold, hard and rugged, but in a beautiful way. Both communities are very protective, I tried to honor that in the pictures.
The PNW was a trip, and Marin is still pretty wild too. I’ve been living in pretty urban environments for the last few years. I love the energy in both areas up north, it’s something that you can never feel in New York or Southern California.
Hard to say. Shooting with a disposable thing is a guessing game, I usually always shoot manual exposures with whatever camera I’m using. With this I just had to point, hope it would focus and expose properly. I love the last frame, the half burnt shot of the chair in West Marin, it captures so much of what I was looking for.
A goofy-footed graphic designer who hails from the first state, Delaware. After attending Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL then graduating from SCAD in Savannah, GA with a BFA in Graphic Design and Illustration, Matt moved to NYC and found work as a freelance designer and art director. In 2006 he moved west to Venice, CA where he co-founded ITAL/C Studio and now resides a bit further north in Oxnard.
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