Morning Walk to Work Pt. 5
A new hope
It’s January second.
A new year is awaiting.
Altough repeating it’s symbolizing a new cycle.
So what do I wish for?
Not much tough.
I want peacefulness, some quiet.
Good life experiences.
Spending time with loved ones.
Pow.
Waves.
Photographs.
Memories.
Is it much?
Who’s to say.
But it’s my time to sink in.
Letting go and witnessing the outcomes with trust and love.
Morning Walk to Work Pt. 4
Broken Artists presents: Artists Market 2.0
Daniela Schmied (Grafik & Illustration)
Momo Frei (Grafik & Illustration)
Raphael Gurtner (Silberschmuck)
Laura Burns (Ayurvedische Produkte)
Fabian Scheidegger (Fotografie Prints)
Serafin Frei & Laura Schmid: (Keramik & Fashion Design)
Lukas Bühlmann (analoge Fotografie & Fine Art)
Morning Walk to Work Pt. 3
Work Life Balance with Change Perspective
Sometimes you meet people where you feel an instant connection. Matthias Ryffel certainly was someone like that to me. Having like minded interests in Surfing we hit it off immediately.
When he’d hit me up about shooting his Portrait in a creative way that both combines his Business CHANGE PERSPECTIVE we came up with the idea to Surf the local River Wave in Thun, wearing a business Suite.
So often, when ideas evolve, their meaning takes on a form on their own. In this case the subject of Work-Life-Balance emerged on the day of shooting.
We had a lot of fun creating these images. Thank you Matthias for letting me capture it.
You can read his article, reflecting on the subject matter of Work-Life-Surf-Balance HERE.
Morning Walk to Work Pt. 2
Wildfoods Commercial Billboard
New Wildfoods campaign. Appointed Photo Assistant for Iris Brosch
Morning Walk to Work Pt. 1
Cover Shot: LARRY CHOPPINS collab.orange VINYL
The LP by Lo-Fi Artist Larry Choppins features 11 incredible guest artists who have shaped and inspired his musical journey — friends, producers, beatmakers, local heroes, and idols.
What came out of it: 10 unique and heartfelt beats, created with some truly special people.
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Skateboarder: Adrian Schneider
All Data Is Lost.
Erased and gone.
Wiped out clean.
Disappeared in the void.
Gone but not forgotten.
Fragments of what’s no longer there is presenting itself in a way that can not be erased.
Yet nothing is tangible anymore.
I grasp of what is left.
Tell myself it’s only Data.
Date in form of photographs and the memories that are sugarcoated around them.
Can my heart bleed from losing a digital fragment of time?
Milu Hatmakers - Custom Handmade Hats
Winter Morning
In the mornings
when everything is still.
The sun aligns the mountains horizion.
And gently baths it’s colors on the snow.
Life starts slowly and warms the cold.
Coffee in the void
Broken Artist Market 1.0
a nice meetup and coffee chat. see you there
Pre-Order: DOCU Magazine Special Edition: Fabian Scheidegger
DOCU Magazine is a yearly Photography Print Publication that showcases the imagery of veteran as well as newcomer Photographers. I’m honored to be granted the opportunity to share a piece of my Book Project “Average Snowboarder” with a Special Edition Print Issue.
All Hallows Eve
October 25 2024
Café Hommage: Canggu's Best Ding Doctor
This is Aki. He's a Ding Doctor in Canggu, Bali. With his team, they're fixing an average of 35 boards per day. Why? Because he's the best. And he's in Canggu.
I got to meet him after my girlfriend got ridden over while doing a Turtle Roll on her brand new 7' Mid-Length one morning on the famous break called Old Man's here on the coast of the busy Town of Canggu. Some guy smacked his fins into her board in the white water which left not only a small thing but quite an open crack in her board. Good thing it was only her Board, could as well be a body part.
It's something that happens on a daily basis many times a day when you have hundreds of enthusiasts, from beginner to intermediate to advanced surfers on the same perfect waves. No wonder the photographer at the beach didn’t act like it was a big thing when she showed the damage to him.
Back at the store where Daniela bought her Board a couple of days ago, the local Surfer who works there, whitout hesitation, recommended that we bring it to Aki for repair.
Located on the road that leads to the infamous Short Cut, Aki welcomed us with his bright white smile. With the garage looking quite busy, which they always are, we were sure it'll take at least a few days to get the job done. To our surprise, once he checked the Board, making sure it didn't soak up water and defining the damage, he said it'll be ready in a day.
Aki talks very openly and generous about the work they're doing. After learning the craft from an elderly Australian, he and his Brother opened a Surfboard Repair Shop in Kuta. After working on countless Surfboards there and building a reputation, Aki decided to part business with his Brother and moved to Canggu where he opened his Shop „Ding Repair By Aki“ four years ago.
Sticking out in all the competition is not easy. But Aki picked the best of the best to work with for his Shop. „Every single Surfboard that comes in goes through my hand. I personally check it, assign it to the right repair guy and it’s not leaving my Shop before I make sure it is 100% the best work that can be done.“ tells me Aki. There are three guys in rotation doing the simple Ding repairs, simple dents, cuts from fins or damages from being crashed on a stone shore in the shore break. He especially hired one skilled Man who is responsible for repairing the Boards that have been broken in two pieces. A job that can’t properly be done by everybody, as there shouldn’t be any indifferences in weight from the original, unbroken Board.
Same goes with the painting and finishing. Boards, like my Girlfriends, that have a beautiful, distinguished color leave the store almost without any visible spot of where it was repainted.
„You can learn a lot of things online nowadays.“ says Aki. „And there are a lot of people repairing Surfboards at the lowest cost possible. But it’s not as easy as it might seem on a youtube Video. To repair Surfboards without compromising a weight difference or any optical indifferences take a lot of work and a lot of finesse and requires a lot of experience. We want to make sure, you’ll love your Surfboard as much when it leaves our Shop as you loved it when you first hold it in your Hand before it was damaged.“
With that being said we left Aki’s repair Shop. My Girlfriend holding her beloved Orange glowing Channel Island Surfboard in her hands, not believing how good of a job Aki and his Team were able to do.
Canggu, 29.03.2024
This Story was published in the WaveUp Magazine Issue #38
Print now available
New Print in different sizes ist now available on Broken Artists!
New Wave Up Mag contribution & the importance of Print.
Every once in a while I’m honored to be allowed to contribute Photographs or a Story, or both, to the Wave Up Magazine. The only remaining Surf Magazine that’s still available in Print. In times where everything seems exclusively available digitally it’s not to take for granted that a is Magazine still published in the form of print, let alone a Surf Magazine from Switzerland where all Surfer are landlocked.
Not being a fan of reading digitally myself I appreciate a printed Magazine more than ever. But as I just learned, there seems to be an upcoming trend on the horizon as more and more people want to abandon their phones in their free time and are looking to put some more time into something with a little more substance to grab, so to say.
A New York Times Article that’s been recently published states that high-end print Magazines are thriving. Same as it was the case when Vinyls made their comeback and stayed, more as a niche but still the sells picking up every year.
Here’s the whole article on how “In a digital age, high-end outdoors magazines are thriving in print” - although only in digital form… Read here.
Wave Up Magazine #38 is out now and available HERE.