booger mcgee

Sam McGee is gracing the windows of local malibu surf and skate shop Drill with a Freedom Artists ad that I shot (the portrait). Peep game!

life’s a gas

Sam McGee for Freedom Artists.

OPEN SPACE

This weekend, on January 15th from 8-11, I will have the opening of my first solo photo exhibition at the beautiful Known Gallery on Fairfax in Los Angeles.

I have been working tirelessly on this collection of images and installations, and my friends Brendan Lynch and Sage Vaughn will also be showing work in the Project room. I got a good look at the final prints the other day before they were sent off to the framer and I can’t begin to say how excited I was to see the body of work all together in its final stages. It was a mix of pure joy and excitement as tears almost filled my eyes as we rolled open the images, one by one, my face grinning ear to ear as each passed by. The gallery is beautiful and the installation is going to be amazing. Please come out and hang, have a drink, find me, say hi, and enjoy the night with a bunch of us.

Thanks to EVERYONE for all the support, including everyone who checks this site out. Below are some words describing the motivation for this collection of images.

“The ocean is and always has been the epicenter of my existence on this planet. I am an aquanaut on a thruster in this ever amazing and boundless liquid energy. I have optimized and streamlined my life to ensure maximum time gliding across water. Every choice and relationship, all decisions and waking thoughts (and most dreams) are influenced and infused by the pull of the tides, the whiff of an offshore breeze, and the lucid corduroy lines gracefully stampeding
towards the coast.

I go to the sea to surf, to bond with friends or to be alone, to let out aggression or to find inner peace. The moving ocean is my solid ground. The moment one stands up on a board, propelled by a wave racing across the sea, one is only aware of the present – nothing else. I have never found any other way to achieve that absolutely pure and meditative mindstate.

Open Space is my expression of the state one falls into while floating weightless off shore, looking out to sea, hoping and waiting for the next set. Troubles are isolated far away on the unreality of land, while you are free in the truest reality of water. It is a timeless unspoilable state that cannot be ruined, not even by the angry local that may be slashing your tires and waxing your windows simply because he doesn’t want to share some waves. To a surfer it’s an understandable
act of necessary evil to keep an ungoverned subculture in form, and from it breaking into full bore beachblanket-bingo havoc.

Open Space is a collection of images, collages, and installations that evoke the balance in my life.”
Cheers,Keegan

Click for full invite and Press Release.

7th letter

The new 7th letter line is available now which I designed a small series for. Purchase shirts at Karma Loop.

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FAT

Teamed up with my friends at Freedom Artists and did a t-shirt design. The photograph is from one of the first days of my first trip to Indonesia 3 years ago. Check out Freedom Artists HERE! and hit them up about getting one for yourself.

What would be a better place to be the first shop to sell the shirt other than, Drifter Surf Shop in Bali, Indonesia. I brought over a dozen shirts to them in the spring, and they flew off the shelves in the first week or two! Best surf shop in Bali with really cool product, and run by even cooler people Tim Russo and Jake Mackenzie.  So if you are ever in the area, definitely check it out. Click for some more photos of the T-shirt and Drifter surf shop.