Braxton Haines is 13 years old and knows how to ride a skateboard better than you could imagine. He was interviewed in issue 27 of Session Skateboarding Magazine which is going to be coming off shelves now. I shot 90% of his article for the magazine and it consisted of 6 of the images below. I am really stoked for their next issue that is going to be coming out now as it will feature quite a bit more of my work which I am really stoked about. Keep your eyes peeled, it’s going to be a good one for sure.

I shot this photo of Braxton yesterday morning at around 7:15am which is insane considering how cold it is and how little sleep I have been getting. Anyway, we had to go early so that we don’t get kicked out and to avoid traffic and people. Braxton ended up tripping over his own feet pushing to this so his session here ended really quickly but this photo is quite cool of him ollie-ing the gap.

We did a shoot the other night in town as part of our tour and it was really cool going to spots in pitch darkness and then cranking the generator and lighting stuff up the way I wanted. Anyway, this was while I was still setting up and testing stuff. Braxton fell and thought this shot was just framed so good with him laying on the floor wandering if anyone had seen what he had just done. I did. Awesome.

Hahaha, again I am putting a photograph of Braxton. We are on a tour at the moment and everyone is getting tricks down and we been shooting some sick skate photographs but because he broke his arm, he just has to chill and aggrevate. He is so funny, I just laugh all the time. Anyway, the skate photographs will be published in Blunt’s next issue so I cannot post those until it is out to keep it all a suprise, so here is a portrait of the man-down with the best Joburg skyline in the back.

During December last year (2005), I joined the Revolution / KFD Team for a skateboard tour and I shot these portraits of the team in the Johannesburg warehouse at the start of it. I liked these photographs a lot and decided to post them because in a few weeks we will be touring again and this stuff gets me excited for it all.