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Photographer Jason Evans: Modest and Motivated

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Wrinen by Diana Gerstacker

Blame It on Rio

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lmagYae you.rsetf on a ~.n::t YQ:ting for a wave. Oon"t wony if you've nt"Yet aauatfy been on one. That'"s the por.t of ima.g:N~tiotl

Balance is by. 5o is aw1~HL Yovr s.nses are a1: the ir most agile and fluid. So~o~nd. movem~t.. and vision are all centered on ooe thing: l'lndlng the best wave and riding it out. Succeeding at surfing rtqulres selective percep­tion, g ood judgment. and the ab•hty to react according ly. It's a synth-esis of c.apturing the wottd around you while focusing on something v•ry s~c,tlc.

'M-Ien you think about it, tht ntctnary skill set is not un­like that required for photography,

Maybe !hats why photographer Jason Evans is so good at both.

Jason Evans of Newport. Rhode Island. is probably best known for his stunning award-..,..,nnW.g spons shots - be they of the SunvneJ' ~Winter Ol)'mpks; Newport's c~ lege summer ba~D tum. The Gu1b; or sutferscruising along the coastlint~-

Bom in the Midwest llf1 the mtd '70s. as Jason's dad was in the Air Force. che hlmtl)' ,..loated severn times, ft:na~ landing in. Concord. MaulchUHtu. which Evans consid­ers to be hi.s hometown The second of four children. h e has two brothers and • srt:tet. L.lsa Wage.nbach, who for a ll intents and purpoMs is hll wife. Is a1so ·n the bull­ness-they met o n a shoot. UN works a-s a producer in stitl-photo and video p roduction.

What's in a Name?

If yo u Google ·photographer· and ·Jason Evans ... -you11 see that there i:1 1nothtt photographer with the same name. O·g a lrttlt dttptr. and you'll discover that there are acw.., stvtf'll photogrlphtrs named Jasoo Evans. Seriously? Yeah. So whit\ 1 guy to do? Specialize . stand out from the crowd. and sutld his ground. Ot you know, water.

How it All Began

As the story goes, twtfve..:year-ok:l Jason was given a rudimentary camera by hll gtlndhther. w1th which h e caught a fairly spectacular lhot: a boft of lightning flash­ing across the de"'rt sky

But the spark that lit Evans's photographic flash wasn't really that lighbng shot. Rather. it came years later, when he took a break from his tnglnttrlng srudies at the Uni­versity of Vermont (UVM) to ttlvtlibroad with a couple

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of friends. As h~ pun lt. ·n.at•s when! my kwe of travel

and capturing new .nd une~ild ~1ngs in a came~a. whi e uying to make tt..m matd\ lh• mematy of what I saw and experienud a l began· EswntiaDy. a synthesis of documentation illnd' an..

Having taken two six-wHt-~ trtps in Europe and an­other one in Southeut Asia. when Evans came back to !he states. he teali:ted that he rutty didn't want to be an engineer after all, and he dropped out of UVM. To make money, he Stiltttd barund ng. but he knew that mixing cocktails wouldn't be something he would do fOf· ever. Over the course of his first week tend ing b ar. he found himself aching for the thrill of tre~ve l and ph otogra· phy, and every d ay, would uy just that to his g irlfriend at the time. She flnaJiy shot back: ·would you stop talking about tak ing p ictures and just~ do it!.

Easier said than done - for most folks. that is. luckily tor Evans, the father of one of his but ct"ldhood friends was a very successful pro!esston.r pi\Otogr.pher W'l the auto industry. C£int CIM\e-ns quiw g.Mrot.ISI'y. offered to take Jason under his Whg. ~ tnon: on:Mt Clemens recognized

Evans\ talents and slcils. ·utwally • w...taf"..er 1 got off the prane he said. 'Oo you wwat 1 job?' Tlw nght cWcumstane· es al came rogetl\et at WI right moment. I fell into it.·

Patience and Personality

From baseball players sltd•ng l'lome to surfers sliding ashore. you can tell that the athletes feel totally at home with Jason photographing (lnd tometimes videotaping) their every move. That comfott .. decided ty earned. is due to Jason's demeanor.

Evans dfdn't learn how to surf until he was around 30 years ok:l. ""Wh.en you'rt thlt o ld ~ncf learning how to suri. there's sort of an etiquette and j udgment that goes on in th.e water. I rke btlng out of my comfort zone as much as pos.sibte. but when you·,.. in the wrong place, you get yelled at. I paid my duu.·

Then Evans copped a due: use lhe amera as a wctor of conne ctivity. and ubn1tely, COI'I'\.mUnity. laking pictures became a way to get to know trM otf'te.r surfers. I was no fonget an obsGde I was someone who could take

a photo of them. You want to bt alOne in U'le water. but you do want a photO of youtMH. I spent a lot more time taking pictu.re:s. which opened up a community to m e. I w ent on to have a show at d\t N~rt Art Museum. Then I went back to surllng. and b•ce~me considerably better. b ecause this time ~oplt wtre helping ... telling me which waves to ttad:,., letting mt cut in line. So yes; surllng is my favo rite sport. t surf as much as I can.

Evans alto .,_,oys 5ho0ting rugby and goff, which are n-ew sports: il't Sru:il. whe-re he'll be heading at the end of July for tM 2016 Summer Olympics. the day after he tum.s 41. -rh., of course there's beach voJieybal and soccer down th•rt They bring out the chaos and the fiKI-ev­ery1hrng that Bt~tll'$ all about."

Evans apprtclat•s both me chaos and the calm: "Think about an of tht training and the preparation that goes into ont moment. You're lifting a weight,. and that hap-­pens in an Instant. But you've trained for years. And the..-.·s so much b-eauty that happens aJI around thaL Whe'Ct!., you'N pre-p.aring or reflecting."

There"s. atso a bft ol da.nger. especially taking close--up shoB. -you Wlnt to get as dose as you can. rve ~icf ten yards in front of a got'«. He a~ me rd be safe. Hap­pify. th• bal wtont oo.--er my head. f'w also faid on the hrd basel ne. lhootang fthy balls in a row as dley flew owr­he.cl. In that AIM job I shot the pitcher. sitting behind the Q;d'ltf .. For protection, a farge sheet of Plexiglu wu in froflt of Jason. Bu1 in what was no doubt a coo­spwratorial fOk•. tht atdler le! one of the pitches hit che gla.s.s. Th• sound alone- let alone the visual- was more than a bit narthng. tO say the leaSL

And what 1b0\lt when he's off the dock? What's his fa. vo~ sport simply to observe? "tt depends. Soccer is a great sport to watch: the way it moves very fluidly. and the •xcittm.,t Is deftnitely there. The more you know about a sport atrt<.1s your ta.ke on it"_ At the beginning. I didn't know a thing about polo. Watch.ing polo where I liw hiS ~ally mlde me appnKiate it more. PersonaUy. I grew up plly~t~g spons. especially wrestling."

Clearly, not all o f Evans shots art watetbome, but they do seem born o f the wattf. The f\lnners' feet often aren't touctting the ground. Nor ate those of skateboarders, snowboarders. skiers or polO-. a.nd t»dminton-p.ayers. There's some thing li'tllt'ally and metaphoricaDy uoff:­ing about the images 1Nt J~SOtl Ewns puts Ol.lt as ;:he cream of his crop. And JUft at crtam risH to the sulface, so toO do his in medias ru llmJOH. The tnOtl"'ent an a:n­lete leaves terril ftrma and hat to trust form and physics, tra:tling and tenacity. 'Whtthtf ll'lt4f\ded or not. Evans's oei.I\IT'e con¥eys fife. liberty. and tht pursuit of happiness.

DoW'Ig with your l ife whit yc>Y thoose to do shows. And not a ll of Evans's photography s sports~r.lated. One glo­rious example is an ann~;~ a! tradition h e began ~ 2007. Ever since January 1 o f thlt yur. he has taken a photo ... .. with the ffrst light of 1tle new )'elf.-

The importance of Variety. the World Around Us, and the World Within

Aside from the l,ternational Otymp c Commrttee. Eva'\s also shoots for a variety o' c1..-.u .• , .. toa1ch r.,.ouoe Bo-se, ?rovidence Cof ege. #le tnttrna-:-ona Yael'\~ Res:ora:ioo Schoo . N lte New 8a>anc:t, Toyo-:.a a"'d v.,.tee Maga­:ire. WI'> at'S hs pre'e,...,ce1' • AJ "'..,e the r adva...,tages.. Sor-e are a itt.e b.t r"Ot'e Chll eng 1'\9 SOt'!"e f":ore exc':­ing You ne\'e.~ know. Yoc.t n~ tr IU'\OW wt\a: a dent .s go­.ng to want. or wh~<t ~• r s:tOI')' t Who thet are on paper ::S o~en very d1ffere.'!'!t !;hll'l tht way U\ey are .n person. 'Ike a the s"'oots.. I Jilt sf'lootlng. anym ng real!)'. en­;oy pho<ography, anCf l espK>alty enjoy ocation wort."

He cont:nues. "'It'• a f~;~n JOb ano I get to be outs de ano meeting new people evtry day I've had the pleasure of wort:ing for the IOC and some other great c ients, b-.n most of al I had tht very good fortune of working for some great mentors 41od c,.atlvt folks so far in my life . ... for wh ch I am eternally gr~ttful ...

His grat:Jtuoe- and goals- tXttnd to travel "'I try to get to a new country for every ytlf I've been a:i'lle. I'm ge•­ting a !itt.e behi,d so tf'ie" could oe a gteat trio in my ~ r.-1.1-e." W11at's at the top of his I sf' Peru And Riyue Say, Ofna would be arN1.:ing ..

Narura ry. the-e a-e sor'le IJI'Itxptctt<l naraa;ons a ong :he way_ "'tt once tool~: "'l-t 36 hOurs to !l"a .. e frOf'l'\ Bos­:on to S':O«ho !'""!. d'lal'l~t yo~o~. mO<I•m day~ t\ !"'es.. I orce cap:areo a..n 'TIOJ~ o'" P~ottJn Jt.at'lf\Q d-rectiy a~ ""'e; Goc knows W"\at I dod. Arid o~. To"\ B~csy u.:.ed 4 he co~lo ~ouch 'TIY ha:r. I '"t h m a...o : Wll coo ..

It prooably won't come at • 1urpr 5e thi.t f()r sorneore who spends so much time 1n tht witer. Ev•ns cons ders himself to be a steward ohht tnvlrooment. · 1 ()Ve oature and protecttng 1t. I guess you could can me an environ­mental st. I'm involved with a ftw loc.al groups and orga­nizations and try to p11y my patt In malo.ng our planet a better place. ! don't have k>ds. but I love the ones I know~ and b elieve they dtstrvt a btiVt1NI and heathy planet :o:o ive on. I th nk there's a lot to bt utd ~or 1eavng a place better than you fouf'ld •t ~ try to prac:ice that ap­proadl to r'"e a lot. ..

The Man Behind the Lens

•'I've b een told I can be quiet, b ut I'm usually ju* thinking and analyzing things: my surroundings ... you. At h om e in Rhode Island. some of my favorite things are family, friends, bonfires, a good cigar, my latest b eer of choice, and my two cats .. .. yes, my cats ...

Evan s'S socia l-media moniker is afrotographter, " . .. a nk-kname that I got when I was o ut in the wate-r shooting surfing. tf you loot several pictures bade in my tnstagram feed, you11 see how b ig my h air can b e. I enjoyed h aving long hair and picking out my afro. but it is way too hot in the summer.~

Not unlike other photographers, appearing in front of the camera is, ~ . .. not my favorite place to b e. I definitely ptefer to b e behind the camera."

And he envisions b eing there for a kmg t ime, as in, forever. "We always joke that I'm not qualified to do anything else at this point. M

*I d on't se-e myself without a cameta. M

A few epic tf'3ve! ad1.-enrures and 6 years of

personal and advertising projects, have led

Jason to his curre.nt photographic passions.

Sports, portraits and the story behind any.

thing rooted in athletics and action are what

drive him. Jason will he shooting h is fourth O lympics for the lnternational O lympic

Committee chis August. To see his insider

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Congratulations to the winners of APAI~'Y"s 2016 "Give Us Your Best Shot" Photo Contest.

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Winner: Michael Mayo

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2nd Place: Jens Lucking

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Honorable Mention: Lyndon Wade

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Winner: Hope Lourie Killcoyne

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