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J. Grant Brittain for SLVDR Craftsman Guild

our SLVDR Craftsman Guild series this time visits the legendary skateboarding photographer J. Grant Brittain. His career goes back over three decades and began out of a passion for skateboarding and documenting his friends as subjects. In our visit he chooses the negative of perhaps his most iconic photo and develops and prints it in his private darkroom. It's a lost art and represents the true craft of photography and a real photographic icon.

This year SLVDR is expanding the “Craftsman Guild” platform, it’s our association of like-minded creatives engaged in kindred pursuits whose work is consistently of the...


Josh Oldenburg for SLVDR Craftsman Guild

The SLVDR Craftsman Guild series visits the Josh Oldenburg is an iconic surfboard shaper, builder and craftsman located in San Diego, California. His commitment to the craft is pure, Josh handles every aspect of the surfboard shaping and manufacturing process by himself- shaping, classic and sanding; one of the few who goes through the whole process themselves. 

This year SLVDR is expanding the “Craftsman Guild” platform, it’s our association of like-minded creatives engaged in kindred pursuits whose work is consistently of the highest quality. Our main purpose with the Craftsman Guild is to call attention to these creative people who...