Design Storytelling

Here’s the full Winter’s Children shoot by Jim Mangan that I found via @flavorpill today.

What an amazing idea!

I love the free spirited joyous nature of these images, mixed with derring do and graphic power. Those brightly patterned blankets just light up the bleak winter landscape like beacons, alternately protecting and revealing those vulnerable yet strong snowboarding bodies.

I like to imagine that these images turned out way better than the photographer could’ve dreamed of.

The series feels totally incongruous, spontaneous, bold and beautiful. It’s extraordinary how the idea of naked snowboarding is just cheesy, reminding me of those naffly titillating 80s skiing postcards, but somehow with the addition of the blankets it becomes graphic, poetic and dreamlike.

I have a regularly recurring skiing dream, which slightly haunts me, where I am always in a resort trying to find skis and boots to get on the slopes before the sun goes down and the lifts shut. I always fail. It’s unbelievably frustrating.

I had this dream driving me to distraction again last night, which makes these images even more powerful to see today. Making me yearn for the freedom of flying down the slopes.

Must get back to the mountains. Might keep my clothes on though ;-)