Posted Dec 11, 2004

Name: Tim O'Kane

From: Tiverton, Ontario

Current Home: Whistler; in a small pile of dirt I call my own.

Favorite Cheese: I don't like cheese. Cheese is a conspiracy created by the Portuguese government. (note from interviewer: everyone likes cheese, don't trust those who don't eat it.)

Facial Hair: none, I'm unable to grow it as of yet.

Dream Camera Setup: nothing digital, and fully clothed respectable ladies to hold my slaves.

Tim, most photographers are a little bit eccentric, weird, and bitter at the world, yet you seem quite normal. How is this possible and do you think you'll eventually mold into the above mentioned image?

I like to swim upstream, this is my charter. To go against the grain, that is much harder.

You're a very diverse photographer shooting a wide range of action sports along with nature and portrait shots. Are you planning to zero in on one genre or keep the diversity alive?

I would rather not limit myself to one subject. Diversity is the basil of life.

So you don't dream about shooting food menus for a living?

Negatory.

A couple of years ago you only shot snowboarding, but I see skiers now appearing in front of your lens. How did you end up shooting skiing?

I was abducted one day by a couple of professional skiers who forced me at gunpoint to use my precious film for their own personal glorification.

Weren't these guys jumping off some stupid buildings in the rain onto a little pile of snow, and if this is the case what in the world made you want to point a camera at these characters?

Well it was actually a roof over a mailbox complex, and it was a twelve gauge shotgun that was pointed at my head.

Well it's a good thing that you met these guys because now the ski world has a great photographer coming their way?

I try to do my part for the underprivileged and bring a ray of hope to this bleak world. Spread the sunshine that is my life.

So tell me a funny story from the mountain last year?

I fractured my right clavicle twice. Both times while sliding a rail.

Well I guess that shows why you're a photographer and not a pro snowboarder. Now tell me a funny story involving a burrito, a sunflower, and a 40oz bottle.

Well I could tell you but after I would have to kill you and hide you in a burrito.

How many millions of girls do you score because you're a photographer?

I try to keep that area of my life secret.

Tim, no one will ever know if you tell me your secrets, the Internet is rarely used nowadays.

Well then, eventually I would like to break into the extravagant world of paparazzi photography because that is where all the hotties are.

Do you like to pressure athletes into sketchy situations for a photo or do you just laugh under your breath when they back out like little babies?

I like to put pressure onto the athletes so in my own little way I can push the limits of the sporting world.

So basically you live vicariously through others?

Sh*t I guess your right I was wondering if having a messy room helps with artistic inspiration?

Or is there some other reason there's so much junk on your floor?

Well I believe you can make a picture out of anything and draw your inspiration from anywhere.

 
Snow's pretty cold, eh?

Not if you warm it up.

Any Thanks?

Shaun-o & Dave at FSI for hooking me up with film and beer. My family for kicking ass, anyone who puts themselves in front of my lens, my friends f*%king rule, Jamie & Blair at Doglotion.com, and anyone that's not on this list, there's a reason for that.