THIS PAGE The last couple of years I’ve been getting into shooting look books for various brands like NNIM. On this day, I was shooting with models Luca Pasqualini and Tina Thommen at a school in Zurich, which was built in the ’70s. The rectilinear architecture combined with the hard sunlight gave me great opportunities to achieve the graphical urban style we were looking for. RIGHT These power lines are an obtrusive-but-distinctive sight in Laax. Silently buzzing, they hang above all the resort’s adjacent backcountry. I shot this one moments before Fredi Kalbermatten, Forest Bailey and Nicolas Müller hit a natty hip in a gully right below them. 088 THE SNOWBOARDER’S JOURNAL