GLEN E. FRIEDMAN’s FUCK YOU ALL show in San Francisco, with special guest Shepard Fairey from Burning Flags Press on Vimeo.
When I first got into photography I was inspired by two things. Punk rock and skateboarding. I quickly realized that the person who was taking some of my favorite photos of both was Glen E. Friedman. He’s one of my early influences and someone who I really respect.
I had the chance to meet him once right before I moved to DC at a party after the opening of a show of his work at Govinda Gallery. I probably talked to him for like two min. and I doubt he would remember, but it was awesome. Later after I moved to DC and was working for Adamson Editions, we did a print of the photo that was on the cover of the Minor Threat “Salad Days” record. It was great to be able to work with one of my favorite photographers on one of my favorite photographs. When Ian MacKaye came by to pick up the original we scanned to make the print, it yielded this hilarious photo:
