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Dion Agius What Youth
06.25.12 – TAGS: ,

Helicopter pilot

Russian

Director (mostly foreign art house)

Arms dealer/warlord

Ringo Starr

Warehouse stock worker

Bodyguard

Installation artist

Coach to the German gymnastic team

Taxi driver

Member of the Weather Underground

Sheep farmer

 

There are many things you’d guess before “surfer” if someone asked you to identify this stranger above. “Waterman” and “professional athlete” probably aren’t on the list either.

Which, in a roundabout way, is part of what makes Dion interesting. Enough so to make a documentary series on. Which we did.

Dane Reynolds photographed by Kai Neville In Japan What Youth

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This is Dane on the train to Osaka, in Japan. Osaka is about an hour from its airport and our exit flight left the next day, and as none of us had been to Osaka we decided to ride in and see the sights. The city turns out to be rad, like a smaller Tokyo,…

Craig Anderson photographed in New York by Kai Neville What Youth

Craig Anderson between the bars Collected Thoughts 002

Photo by Kai Neville Kai took this photo of Craig a little before 1 a.m. in Brooklyn, New York. They’re leaving the strange party they wandered into after a Dirty Beaches show at Williamsburg’s Glasslands Gallery — truly they did, they sauntered all Australian through some odd open side door and into someone’s loft, where…

John John Florence in Barbados

John John in Barbados Collected Thoughts 001

This is John John Florence by the ghost of an Olympic pool at an abandoned resort in the parish of St. Lucy near the northern tip of Barbados, and what a useless cavity in the ground has he got here. The walls are too vertical to skate, there’s no water to ease the heat, there’s…

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