J grant britain biography of donald

Photo by Mike Blabac. Grant Brittain has been at the forefront of skate photography since the s.

J grant brittain family background

He was the photo editor of Transworld Skateboarding for two decades and has shot some of the best skate photos ever. We are stoked that J. Grant has joined The No Comply Network. The Del Mar Skate Ranch was a mecca of sorts for skaters coming from around the world, it was also a breeding ground for some of the best vert skaters in the world.

It was also the second to last South California skatepark of the s and 80s to be bulldozed in I think all of the events that were in the magazines put it on the map. I became Photo Editor a few issues in and from the beginning I loved collaborating with a variety of photographers, designers, artists, writers and skaters. We were all learning how to make a magazine, it was in the pre-computer days and everything was done by hand, all cut and paste layouts.

It was a talented bunch and everyone had their own idea of what they wanted it to look like, but we came together and made it work and produced some amazing magazines. We, the photographers were essentially figuring out the best way to shoot street skating and Natas and Gonz were taking skateboarding to another level. The skateparks were disappearing and it was all moving to the backyards and city streets.

The ollie off the bathrooms in Venice where he broke two or three borrowed boards the first time I shot photos of him, I think. I was shooting Jamie at a rail on the other side of Point Loma High School and he wanted to show me something he wanted to try. We went back another day and he rode up to it a bunch of times and finally launched off and went right through his board.