The People Who Made Issue#56 Happen

We love to prop up our incredibly talented team of contributors whenever possible. Read all about some of the people who slaved away on Issue#56

PHOTOGRAPHER [TOBY HUDSON]
Toby Hudson shot Buraka Som Sistema for us. He was born in England in 1978 and grew up in Bath, Somerset with a healthy diet of hip hop and skateboarding. He first got into photography when he was about 14 playing around with his Dad’s camera. Some of his friends were in bands and he always loved music but had never been able to play anything, so he became the band photographer. He eventually moved to London at age 19 where he started assisting fashion and advertising photographers before branching out on his own and shooting for glossy magazines like Elle and the Sunday Times Style. When asked to do some gig shots for ION magazine Toby was at first hesitant because “I’m unseasoned in the chaos of shooting from the pit. But when I found out it was Buraka Som Sistema live at the Scala, I jumped at the chance. I knew it would be an amazing atmosphere and a great fun trying to capture the spirit of the gig. There was literally sweat dripping off the walls in there.”
…The Trail Of Dead. He is a designer/Illustrator currently living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He currently works at St. Bernadine Mission Communications [a Vancouver design agency], and spends most of his off hours freelancing for various brands and designing for international shows. Spending the last eight years traveling and competing as a pro BMX rider has given Travis a rare and unique perspective in art and design. His years leading a double life of design and BMX have taught him a great deal about the importance of going your own way in whatever you do.
I Love You Phillip Morris for us. He devotes most of his energy to his job as Associate Editor of indieWIRE.com, an online magazine based out of New York, and also occasionally contributes to Variety, Xtra!, Playback, Exclaim, and Hitfix.com. Most of his work is either film-oriented or queer issue-oriented, or both. He would like to eventually break out beyond this pigeon hole, but is certainly happy to be getting any work at all. Additionally, since finishing grad school at Concordia University last summer, he has attempted to weather the recession by adopting a life of homelessness. He has not paid rent in over eight months, instead mooching floors, couches and spare bedrooms at a variety of cities across North America, most consistently New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and Montreal. This has resulted in him paying off approximately 5% of his student loans, and annoying a geographically diverse mix of friends and family. He is expected to remain homeless through 2010.