Category Finalist 2010: Culture

Ryan Fudger

I know I didn’t sleep in this room, but my sleeping arrangements were about parallel quality as they involved two bathroom towels and a Spongebob Squarepants pillow.

I had already been in Paris for three days before the DK Bicycle team arrived. When I finally met them, I was apparently a little too early. As I sat watching everyone hatch from their jet-lagged slumber, it took about five minutes of taking in the disaster of a room before the idea to shoot a photo finally overtook me – possibly because this sort of scene isn’t all that uncommon in BMx, or I simply could have been moving just as slow that morning.

Considering it was day zero, I’m fairly certain that this was the first photo officially shot on what would be a very eventful trip around Europe. In true American fashion, we bumbled around multiple countries infuriating countless locals, finding ourselves really lost several times, and eventually getting robbed and beat up – it was an unforgettable trip.

PHOTO INFO

Photographer: Ryan Fudger
Athletes: DK Team (Nina Buitrago, Quinn Semling, Zack Yankush, Brian Hunt, Brett Walker, Brian Kachinsky, and filmer Shad Johnson)
Location: Paris, France

TECHNICAL INFO

Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Lens: 15mm
ISO: 1600
F-Stop: f 5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/15