I was working on a building site with my Dad before deciding the building industry was not for me. Why do something you don't love?

Coming from a BMX background I had always collected the magazines and was fascinated by the images that were on the pages, always questioning how they were created. This sparked my desire to focus on shooting photos of BMX as well as just riding one.

Eventually I was lucky enough to have some of my photographs published in the magazines I collected all those years ago. This became more frequent and bit by bit I was finding myself being sent away on trips to document the riding of some of the best riders in the world. Fast forward to the present day and I am still fortunate enough to be going away and shooting with these riders and having my work published in various outlets, one of them being a print magazine called Endless, which I am a senior photographer for.

I live in a small town called Esher just outside of London. I started photography when I was around 16 years old, just taking photos of my friends while out riding in and around London.

My camera started collecting dust when I had to get a full time job and eventually it became super hard to find time and to get motivated to shoot. It wasn’t until 2014 that I decided to seize an opportunity that came to me and commit 100% into pursuing photography full-time.

Photography is my passion as well as BMX. When it comes to BMX trips abroad with a dope crew I like the fact you have no idea what sort of photos you will be shooting, as it's all mostly freestyled when going to a country you have never been to.

Nowadays, I am using most of my time working on my own magazine called 'Endless' that I started in November 2015.

Growing up surrounded by mountains in a small village close to Innsbruck I quickly developed my love for mountain sports. At the age of nine I got my first snowboard, and from that day on I spent every free minute in the snow parks.

Sometimes I brought my little point and shoot camera, just to capture some of the great moments I had hanging out with my friends in the mountains.

Later I tried shooting with a friend’s DSLR and it was such a cool experience, I bought one for myself. From that day on photography was my passion and ever since I've tried to spend as much time as possible behind my cam.

Nowadays I'm based in Innsbruck and my favorite thing to shoot is still snowboarding. But as I love being outdoors I enjoy taking photos of all kinds of outdoor-sports and document the lifestyle that goes along with it.

I started photography in 2010 after an accident in which I spent 12 hours deep in the New Zealand bush with a dislocated shoulder. We had just gone heli-kayaking on the Kokotai river on South Island. About half way through the run I got stuck in a hole and my shoulder popped. We didn’t manage to get it back in so two of my friends went to get rescue, and one stayed with me.

After getting winched out (yes, it was painful!) and two shots of morphine, the doctor told me I wouldn’t be able to kayak anymore, the nerve damage was too big after 12 hours of being dislocated.

I only had kayaking in my life – no degree, no jobs on the side, so I started to freak out about what life was going to be. I had saved up a bit of money, so I went and bought my first camera, started to film and take photos of my friends kayaking. A few months later, after a lot of hard work, my shoulder was back to being normal, I did the kayak Slalom World Championships in Slovenia and I’d go out shooting whenever I wasn’t training or racing.

Now filming and photography has allowed me to travel to some of the most remote places on earth, to document a sport that has been with me since I was seven.

I began my artistic journey through drawing, painting and tattooing. After six years as a professional outdoor photographer, I joined the Slack.fr team as a senior photographer and creative manager where my time is divided between developing creative content for the slackline company and traveling the world for photo projects.

During those years, I've worked with global outdoor press and brands. Today, my attachment to Slack.fr allows me to be a bit more selective with my work and definitely spend more time on personal projects.

2015 was a great year for traveling and shooting. It started in January with a trip to Japan where I witnessed and fully appreciated a two meter snow pack. In September Leo Taillefer dragged me on a freeski trip to Patagonia.

After a short stay in France, I flew to Vietnam to shoot the last part of a portrait project based on the traditions of ethnic minorities. Photography has always brought me that daily dose of inspiration and motivation I need. The focus might change but the creative process remains vital to me.

I began my artistic journey through drawing, painting and tattooing. After six years as a professional outdoor photographer, I joined the Slack.fr team as a senior photographer and creative manager where my time is divided between developing creative content for the slackline company and traveling the world for photo projects.

During those years, I've worked with global outdoor press and brands. Today, my attachment to Slack.fr allows me to be a bit more selective with my work and definitely spend more time on personal projects.

2015 was a great year for traveling and shooting. It started in January with a trip to Japan where I witnessed and fully appreciated a two meter snow pack. In September Leo Taillefer dragged me on a freeski trip to Patagonia.

After a short stay in France, I flew to Vietnam to shoot the last part of a portrait project based on the traditions of ethnic minorities. Photography has always brought me that daily dose of inspiration and motivation I need. The focus might change but the creative process remains vital to me.

I was born and raised at Lake Garda, Italy and have been passionate about outdoor and extreme sports since a young age.

After an education in classical arts finished with a design and graphic communication degree, I had the chance to become a photographer for what in those days was an emerging sport – freeride mountain bike. It was already my passion and lifestyle.

In more than a decade in this business I've been shooting every aspect of the sport in many different parts of the world; from the competitions to the adventure and lifestyle around it, and with the best athletes around from every discipline. My work has been displayed in almost every mountain bike magazine on the planet, with quite a few covers too. For several years I’ve also been shooting for some of the coolest brands in the industry on specific assignments and documenting races and contests around the world.

I was born in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada where the only things that separated me from the North Pole were a stained wooden fence and some crushed rock. At the age of 16, I was ‘abducted’ from high school by an unsuspecting cult organization and forced to ski moguls and lame tricks off Lemmings Leap under the 7th heaven chairlift – the original stimulus for my interest in airtime photography.

Home was a friend’s Volkswagen that we would park underground, below the conference centre. There we would take power from the last stall of the third floor to heat the ’73 Westfalia. I subsisted on leftover food from the Rendezvous restaurant atop Blackcomb Mountain and wore clothing left in the lost and found. During the early 1990s I acquired my first camera when a drunk French-Canadian freestyle skier, being pursued by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, stashed it along with twenty rolls of unexposed Fuji Provia and a half bottle of Rye Whiskey in stall number three of the Garfinkle's washroom. My destiny was sealed.

In 1998, the world’s largest and most prestigious snowboard magazine, TransWorld SNOWboarding, recruited me as a staff photographer. Now, 18 years later, I still work for them among many other brands and publications. I have had thousands of action sports photos published worldwide including more than 100 covers.

I was born in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada where the only things that separated me from the North Pole were a stained wooden fence and some crushed rock. At the age of 16, I was ‘abducted’ from high school by an unsuspecting cult organization and forced to ski moguls and lame tricks off Lemmings Leap under the 7th heaven chairlift – the original stimulus for my interest in airtime photography.

Home was a friend’s Volkswagen that we would park underground, below the conference centre. There we would take power from the last stall of the third floor to heat the ’73 Westfalia. I subsisted on leftover food from the Rendezvous restaurant atop Blackcomb Mountain and wore clothing left in the lost and found. During the early 1990s I acquired my first camera when a drunk French-Canadian freestyle skier, being pursued by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, stashed it along with twenty rolls of unexposed Fuji Provia and a half bottle of Rye Whiskey in stall number three of the Garfinkle's washroom. My destiny was sealed.

In 1998, the world’s largest and most prestigious snowboard magazine, TransWorld SNOWboarding, recruited me as a staff photographer. Now, 18 years later, I still work for them among many other brands and publications. I have had thousands of action sports photos published worldwide including more than 100 covers.

I’m Markus Braumann, 31 years old and raised and living in Berlin. It was a difficult decision for me to spend a huge amount of money on my first DSLR and some equipment.

My first intention after buying a camera was to get shots and impressions for my sponsors of my weekly trips as a BMX pro. Since day one with my own amateur photo equipment I felt that my money was spent well.

I was so excited about the new possibilities. I was hungry for more and better lenses and other equipment. While problems with an injury of my back became more annoying, the passion for the photography became bigger and bigger. People gave me positive feedback, I earned the first bugs with my new hobby and my motivation to change my focus from doing professional sports to being a photographer was stable.

Since day one I love shooting BMX, but as a freelancer I still try to go many different directions with my camera to make new experiences.

I am a professional photographer based in the urban jungle of Vienna, but you’re more likely to find me in the wild outdoors of the world. My photographic origins date way back to an analog era at the turn of the millennium. I have always been drawn to action and out-door adventures of all kinds and found that photography was the best way to keep me in the heart of this fascinating lifestyle.

I have intensively studied the technical and conceptual dimensions of photography and am self taught as well as in various professional educational programs. After working as a freelance photographer be-side my job as post-doctoral research fellow, I finally decided to quit my academic career and follow my passion full time.

My anthropologic background allows me to get a different angle on my projects and proves to be a useful tool for profound editorial sto-ries for different clients. Besides commercial shootings, reportage work is also one of my favorite fields of photography. A personal photographic long-term project is the exploration of urban adventures and the adaption of the public spaces through adventure sports.

I’m a professional photographer and creative director from Australia, focusing on action sports, travel, lifestyle and fashion industries, particularly in relation to water.

I grew up around the ocean and was interested in image-making and story-telling from a young age. After studying a Bachelor of Visual Communication at Newcastle University, I worked as a freelance graphic designer and creative director for several years with some of Australia’s largest surf brands, before shifting my focus to photography.

In my short career in surf photography, I have been awarded the Nikon/Surfing Australia Surf Photo of the Year (2014), as well as being recognized as the Bodyboarding Photographer of the Year by both Le Boogie Bodyboarding Magazine and Riptide Bodyboarding Magazine (2014). I have recently worked on creative campaigns for brands including Audi Australia, Veuve Clicquot, Samsung and Lancome, as well as continuing to freelance for surfing publications.

I enjoy wide open spaces, getting outside of my comfort zone, the ocean, surfing, art, basketball, animals, new challenges, jokes and heated debates. What best defines my style and work ethic? An ability to illustrate a grand idea on a minimal and intimate scale, coupled with an adventurous and perpetually self-critical nature.