Patrick O’Dell

16Nov10

Patrick O’Dell is an American photographer and filmmaker who maintains a photographic blog called Epicly Later’d, which became the title of his critically acclaimed series of ongoing documentaries about professional skateboarders with Vice’s online television network, VBS.TV.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1977 and in 2001 he was taken on as a staff photographer and writer at Thrasher Magazine. Later he moved on to a position as Photo Editor at Vice Magazine. When Vice started their online television website, vbs.tv, O’Dell was brought on to put together a skateboard show. Epicly Later’d as we know it was born. The show was an instant hit with skateboarders, showing a mix of current interviews and skating, as well as past video clips. His work has also been featured in fashion and cultural publications such as V Magazine, Self-Service, Nylon, and Tokion. He has also collaborated with Altamont Clothing to create a fashion line featuring his images.

O’Dell’s site features stars of the skateboarding world, New York musicians, photographers, artists, and a whole revolving cast of friends and drunken strangers that populate the posts on his site. He makes the distinction between the two different Epicly Later’ds: “My website is a personal photo journal. The show is like skate history, and the show is a public thing. I want more people to watch the show. My website, I don’t really care; I want less people to look at it.”

http://www.patrickodell.com
Patrick O’Dell interview at Camerabag.tv

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