Crowdfunder Launched for Photo Book on The Inside Story of Snowboarding
Photographer Patrick ‘Brusti’ Armbruster has launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance a new coffee table photo book titled ‘Barely Made It’ on the evolution of snowboarding, which he has been involved in for three decades.
Patrick grew up in a Zurich suburb and through skateboarding discovered snowboarding in the late 80’s. In 1994 he had his first pictures published in a Swiss Snowboard Magazine and by 1996 he had become a senior photographer at Snowboarder (Monster Backside Magazine) before moving to Onboard magazine.
In 1999 Patrick (above) started to produce one of the first European 16mm snowboard movies together with Drew Stevenson which then turned into the Absinthe Films production company with Justin Hostynek, going on to release a snowboard movie every year and featuring some of the best riders in the world. The films were known for its superb soundtrack and quality of filming and editing. The riding was ground breaking and the movies won numerous awards.
“The project to produce a book about our times in snowboarding has been with me for over 20 years. In 2013 I started to scan my whole archive of analog photos. Thousands of slides, negatives, medium format pictures documenting a legendary time in snowboarding. The photo book will become a contemporary document of snowboarding in the 90 & 00 years. The time when snowboarding became popular, the riders were idealized to rock stars and the events became pilgrimage sites for the fans. I had the privilege to be in the middle of it instead of just being there. So over the years an archive of pictures of the world’s best snowboarders in front of and behind the scenes was created. The best action pictures but more a personal insight into the travels, room parties and portraits of the riders who made snowboarding what it is today,” explained Patrick.
‘Barely Made it’ will be 24x30cm (10 x 12”) and about 240 pages in length, published in March next year and financed through crowdfunding on Indiegogo. It will cost €45
Featured boarders will include:
Terje Haakonsen, Gigi Rüf , Wolle Nyvelt, Romain de Marchi, Circe Wallace, JP Solberg, Michi Albin, Fabien Rohrer, Gian Simmen, Peter Line, Steve Gruber, Jonas Emery, David Benedek, Ingemar Backman, Iker Fernandez, Johan Olofsson, Stine Brun-Kjeldaas, Shaun White, Kale Stevens,Marius Sommer, Nicolas Müller, Fredi Kalbermatten, Trevor Andrew, Joni Malmi, Wille Luoma, Kratter Brothers, Danny Kass, Babs Charlet, Anne Molin-Kongsgaard, Travis Rice, Nic Droz, Keir Dillon, Aleksi Litovaara, Eero Ettala, David Pischi, Dani Sappa, Mike Ranquet….
