Dave Raphael

I always freak out on this bridge.

Is there anything worse than going up an incline on a suspension bridge?

No thanks.

at night.

night flight.

I’d be living a different adventure for sure without it.

When I was kid, I wanted to play guitar like the Reverend Billy G, wished to run an Eclair like Mike Wadleigh and hoped that one day I would be pointing a Leica at the Heart of Rock,  just like Jim Marshall.  I quietly waited for the day that my black m4 and summilux would be as brassed up, beaten, and full of history as Jim Marshall’s.  I’ll forever be in debt for the perfect motivation at a critical moment in my youth.  Learning that Jim Marshall had died just now, I was compelled to take a photograph of my camera sitting here, where I left it when I sat down to edit tonight.  It was the only thing I could think to photograph in that moment.  I wouldnt be anywhere without the take your face off inspiration that Jim Marshall was for me when I was a tike with unstoppable dreams.  Thanks, thanks, and thank you Jim Marshall, there’ll never be another.

I had met

that grew up on Os Mutantes.

I’ll take a train in technicolor.

to survive one week in a harsh desert environment.

The fine guys at Crack For Your Eyes spreading the gospel on 18 March 2010.

Check out CYFE !

I have a three page editorial in the second issue of Geil Magazine out now.

Shot this last Summer in Amsterdam with a wonderful team: Jeroen Kamphorst stylist, Joke Kroon Makeup Artist and model Dennis Gijsbers.

check out the issue online, the layout is on pages 57-59.  Geil Magazine Issue Two!