1. ubi sunt, a story by duston todd + jenner brown

    photography/production: duston todd
    film: jenner brown
    models: nattalie marley and jackson tenório arruda-mcneill
    stylist: noelani tsunami
    hair: janae mechling johnson
    makeup: denise christensen
    assistance: michelle barrett

  2. ubi sunt, a story by duston todd + jenner brown

    photography/production: duston todd
    film: jenner brown
    models: nattalie marley and jackson tenório arruda-mcneill
    stylist: noelani tsunami
    hair: janae mechling johnson
    makeup: denise christensen
    assistance: michelle barrett

  3. UBI SUNTa story by Duston Todd + Jenner Brown coming to you next week!photography: duston toddvideo: jenner brownmodel: nattalie marley (happy birthday today!) model:jackson tenorio arruda-mcneilwardrobe stylist: noelle theresehair: janae mechling johnsonmakeup: denise christensen & michelle barrett

    UBI SUNT
    a story by Duston Todd + Jenner Brown 
    coming to you next week!

    photography: duston todd
    video: jenner brown
    model: nattalie marley (happy birthday today!) 
    model:jackson tenorio arruda-mcneil
    wardrobe stylist: noelle therese
    hair: janae mechling johnson
    makeup: denise christensen & michelle barrett

  4. i’m a desert rat.my name is written in the dirt.

    i’m a desert rat.
    my name is written in the dirt.

  5. she lost control again..see kids, listening to good music leads to good art.Joy Division’s iconic album artwork immediately sprang into my head when i saw this rock formation in southern utah. (my photograph on the left).

    she lost control again..

    see kids, listening to good music leads to good art.
    Joy Division’s iconic album artwork immediately sprang into my head when i saw this rock formation in southern utah. (my photograph on the left).

  6. FRICTION/MOTION
    a story by DUSTON TODD + PHILLIP ISTOMIN
    photography: duston todd
    talent: keely king + phillip istomin
    make up: jillyn leone
    hair: vanessa alder

  7. FRICTION/MOTION
    a story by DUSTON TODD + PHILLIP ISTOMIN
    photography: duston todd
    talent: keely king + phillip istomin
    make up: jillyn leone
    hair: vanessa alder

  8. FRICTION/MOTION
    a story by DUSTON TODD + PHILLIP ISTOMIN
    photography: duston todd
    talent: keely king + phillip istomin
    make up: jillyn leone
    hair: vanessa alder

  9. FRICTION/MOTION
    a story by DUSTON TODD + PHILLIP ISTOMIN
    photography: duston todd
    talent: keely king + phillip istomin
    make up: jillyn leone
    hair: vanessa alder

  10. ….more to come.Recently I put myself up to the challenge of asking the community to send me an idea, concept, theme, etc and I’d chose my favorite one and go photograph it. Thus, the story of FRICTION/MOTION was born.

    ….more to come.

    Recently I put myself up to the challenge of asking the community to send me an idea, concept, theme, etc and I’d chose my favorite one and go photograph it. Thus, the story of FRICTION/MOTION was born.

  11. peering out of the helicopter window, the air is thin and hollow, the drum of the aircraft has faded and i hear nothing, there’s a subtle push of wind and we fish-tail. my senses are on fire. we are a fly reverently hovering the shoulder of a sleeping behemoth… and i am looking down into my soul. 

    Osorno, Chile.

  12. “realize that everything connects to everything else.” - da vinci

    there is beauty in everything and everything is connected. the vain colors that paint the face of the earth would not exist without the decaying and broken soil…”realize”, look, and see. the cow, the landscape, the bones and grasses. still life. nature morte. landscape.
    we are all created from the same dust, and so shall we return. 

    this decaying cow is almost a stones throw from my backyard, and that is perfectly fine by me.  

  13. “and i… i took the one less traveled by.” - robert frostphoto from my oregon coast trip in the fall. working on some serious editing, more to come in the near future…a sincere thanks for following my work.

    “and i… i took the one less traveled by.” - robert frost
    photo from my oregon coast trip in the fall. working on some serious editing, more to come in the near future…a sincere thanks for following my work.

  14. to be rich with meaning…“I spend a lot of time in the stacks in the libraries, looking at these stacks of unreadable masterpieces that men devoted their lives to, standing on the shoulders of geniuses before them — Bertrand Russell, ‘Principia Mathematica’ and all these things — who will read those? How will they change society? How do they really factor into things? Me? I was able to contribute with a lot of tricks. Those tricks now have names and those tricks factor into what everybody else does. In a very meaningful way I have helped create a vocabulary by which this community communicates. I mean you’ll hear people chat and listen to how skaters talk and the words and expressions…things that we created, it’s our language, but it’s also physical and it helps define us as individuals and how we fit within that framework and it helps define our community itself. And so, when I look and think of the contribution of all these geniuses and the smell and the browning paper of these dusty books that no one will read I think I am so rich in that what I have done has meaning.”- Rodney Mullen, ‘Bones Brigade: An Autobiography’to be rich with meaning - that is what i want. that is what is my drive and fuel. that is the core force that stirs me to push myself into the dark abyss of the uncomfortable, to push through that curtain, to fight the fatigue, and to seek the answers that lie under the cold wet heavy stones. i want my work to be rich with meaning. and perhaps the photographs that i have created will turn brown and forgotten - but i will know when i close my eyes that i did all that i possibly could, that my work was genuine and it was visceral, and authentic…and that i exhausted my very soul. …to be rich with meaning. yeah, that is what i want. context:the quote above is by Rodney Mullen, a pioneer in the skateboarding community and an OG member of the Bones Brigade. many can directly thank him for what the skating has become today. if you haven’t seen the documentary ‘Bones Brigade’ stop whatever you are doing and turn on Netflix - NOW.and my photo: this was taken from a helicopter during my recent visit to southern Chile. it is a detail of a glacier that sits on the top of the volcano Osorno. this image really speaks to me.

    to be rich with meaning…

    “I spend a lot of time in the stacks in the libraries, looking at these stacks of unreadable masterpieces that men devoted their lives to, standing on the shoulders of geniuses before them — Bertrand Russell, ‘Principia Mathematica’ and all     these things — who will read those? How will they change society? How do they really factor into things? Me? I was able to contribute with a lot of tricks. Those tricks now have names and those tricks factor into what everybody else does. In a very meaningful way I have helped create a vocabulary by which this community communicates. I mean you’ll hear people chat and listen to how skaters talk and the words and expressions…things that we created, it’s our language, but it’s also physical and it helps define us as individuals and how we fit within that framework and it helps define our community itself. And so, when I look and think of the contribution of all these geniuses and the smell and the browning paper of these dusty books that no one will read I think I am so rich in that what I have done has meaning.”
    - Rodney Mullen, ‘Bones Brigade: An Autobiography’

    to be rich with meaning - that is what i want. that is what is my drive and fuel. that is the core force that stirs me to push myself into the dark abyss of the uncomfortable, to push through that curtain, to fight the fatigue, and to seek the answers that lie under the cold wet heavy stones. 
    i want my work to be rich with meaning. and perhaps the photographs that i have created will turn brown and forgotten - but i will know when i close my eyes that i did all that i possibly could, that my work was genuine and it was visceral, and authentic…and that i exhausted my very soul. 
    …to be rich with meaning. yeah, that is what i want. 

    context:
    the quote above is by Rodney Mullen, a pioneer in the skateboarding community and an OG member of the Bones Brigade. many can directly thank him for what the skating has become today. if you haven’t seen the documentary ‘Bones Brigade’ stop whatever you are doing and turn on Netflix - NOW.

    and my photo: this was taken from a helicopter during my recent visit to southern Chile. it is a detail of a glacier that sits on the top of the volcano Osorno. 
    this image really speaks to me.

  15. “‘in the desert,’ wrote balzac, somewhere, ‘there is all and there is nothing. god is there and man is not.’“it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. the extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. love flowers best in openness and freedom.” - edward abbeyvisit more of my landscape series, “in my solitude” at boxonfire.com  

    “‘in the desert,’ wrote balzac, somewhere, ‘there is all and there is nothing. god is there and man is not.’
    “it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. the extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. love flowers best in openness and freedom.” - edward abbey

    visit more of my landscape series, “in my solitude” at boxonfire.com