HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
"What the fuck? These photos are like something that I already take, pictures of stuff that I am already doing with my friends. I could just be taking photos of my friends.” Photographer Alexis Jade Gross describes her experience flipping through the photo book of photographer [REDACTED] when she realized hey, she could do that too! Gross has since made a name for herself documenting the scenes intersecting between music and skateboard culture, building relationships with bands like Turnstile by taking deeply authentic, visually arresting images.
HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
Photographer Alexis Jade Gross keeps it real and takes the homies with he
"What the fuck? These photos are like something that I already take, pictures of stuff that I am already doing with my friends. I could just be taking photos of my friends.”
Photographer Alexis Jade Gross describes her experience flipping through the photo book of photographer [REDACTED] when she realized hey, she could do that too! Gross has since made a name for herself documenting the scenes intersecting between music and skateboard culture, building relationships with bands like Turnstile by taking deeply authentic, visually arresting images.
She became interested in photography because her mom used to shoot for a local newspaper in her native Long Island. She began shooting her friends in the skateboarding scene, eventually making her way to Los Angeles, what she describes as the “hub” of skateboarding. She was working at a skateboarder-owned pizza shop when Vans tapped her and “offered an insane amount of money to just shoot photos of my friends in their shoes.” She left the job and didn’t look back.