Contributors
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Dan Carr, Senior PhotographerBorn in the UK, Carr took a gap year in Whistler after high-school, which planted the seed for a mountain obsession. His work has been featured in ski and snowboard magazines from Japan to Canada and everywhere in between as well as innumerable commercial campaigns for an ever widening list of clients. www.dancarrphotography.com |
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Mattias Fredriksson, Senior PhotographerMattias Fredriksson landed most journalists dream job – editor-in-chief of Aka Skidor, Sweden’s largest ski magazine – by the time he was twenty-five years. After three years, he promptly quit to give his photography a chance - and we’re sure as hell glad he did. www.mattiasfredriksson.com |
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Blake Jorgenson, Senior PhotographerPhoto wunderkind Blake Jorgenson has had many accomplishments over the years, but it's always been his long term goal to both showcase his own work and provide a focal point for Whistler's considerable photographic community. So he opened a gallery in Whistler's Westin Hotel where he now shows and sells his work and that of others. Fortunately we can still buy his work at bargain, non-gallery rates. www.blakejorgenson.com |
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Feet Banks, ContributorUnlike every other ski journalist known to mankind, 35-year-old writer/editor/muckraker Feet Banks actually grew up in Whistler—whatever that means in a place ruled by Peter Pan syndrome. He even has an air named after him on Blackcomb Mountain. It may only be just over a metre high and often roped off because the landing skirts a slow zone, but “Feet’s Air” is a Blackcomb classic, a perennial side hit off the top of Excelerator Chair that almost anyone who rides the hill drops daily. |
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Lisa Richardson, ContributorAccording to Pemberton-based writer Lisa Richardson, a ski mag was her rabbit hole. “How else does a girl from Brisbane wind up in Whistler?” Via the direct route, of course, falling through a copy of some neon flecked Australian ski magazine with Glen Plake on the cover, circa 1994, to land in Whistler five months later with a very different, kangaroo-free life. Read some of Lisa’s bizarre insights at www.lisarichardsonbylines.com. |
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Penny Buswell, ContributorAt the tender age of 29, Ms. Buswell has made the grade as SKIER’s go-to girl. It was in 2004 that she first she visited Whistler. “Not knowing much about Canada, I expected lumberjack shirts, bearded people and beavers.” Which is precisely what she found. She does, however, harbour one dark secret: “I like being a snowboarder writing for a ski magazine; skiing’s pretty cool and it’s culture has a longer history. Besides—we all like sliding on snow. |
