Name, age, currently residing?
Kyle Bunker, 24, Portland Oregon.

When and where did you grow up skating?
Started skateboarding '99. Grew up on my dads farm in central Iowa. Standard "grew up on the farm and skated shitty shit, then moved to Oregon to skate good shit" story.

Mediums of choice?
Skateboard, cameras, ect... Any skateboard that's 8 inches wide, and 55mm colored wheels. Never white or black wheels. Ever. ...and sometimes a Hasselblad 501 cm with 30mm, 80mm, and 150mm lenses.

What do you like to shoot?
Up until now I've pretty much only shot skateboarding because I thought it wasn't worth the technical effort to shoot photos of stuff i don't really care/know much about. But last week I set up a new darkroom in the basement and now I'm all claiming fine art career. Ha, we'll see how that works out.

How has skateboarding influenced your art or vis virsa?
When I first started getting into photography skateboarding was pretty much my only influence. I grew up looking at magazines and like most kids only looked at the pictures. So the only point of reference that I really had as far as what constituted a good photo was what I saw in magazines. So I just tried to emulate how the pros shot their photos. Luckily I was reading Transworld at the time so I had Atiba to use as inspiration.

What/ who inspires your work?
Do you have a specific creative process. Photographically Atiba will always be my hero. Generally Fat Mike from NOFX is also on point. He is quite clear that the key to music is not caring weather or not anyone besides himself at their shows is having fun. "Punk rock isn't about the kids having fun, it's about me having fun." Not sure how that relates to photos, but NOFX is awesome. As for any specific process, the way I normally go about shooting a photo is one of two ways: I will see a spot that I think would look rad shot a specific way and plan ahead of time how I want to light it and when I think it should be shot, then get someone to do a trick that works with what I want to do. Or If no planning was involved ahead of time I will wait until the person is ready to do their trick and then and hold everyone up while I look at 2-5 passable compositions and take several light meter readings and shoot a bunch of Polaroids.

What are your currently working on?
The new video is full swing, so filming for my new part is all that I have really been focused on. It's killing me, but this year might be my best part yet. Its obvious you shoot a lot of skateboarding, but enjoying cameras and shred sleds myself, i know how hard this can be....

Skate or shoot first? Skate first always. Unless it's specifically a photo mission, which is generally something gnarly that I wouldn't skate anyway.

It seems like everyone you shred with kills it, did you all grow up together? How did mall grab come to be?
I grew up in Iowa, everyone else is from around Oregon. Pretty much everyone from Mall Grab grew up together, then when I moved to Oregon in '06 I met Steven and Johnny (That Guy) at a park and we became friends and all moved in together. Mall Grab itself wasn't actually the first video we did. (I say we, but it's all Stevens work.) The idea behind it was that Oregon winters are dry every 20 days or so, which induces a lot of indoor partying. So Steven got a shitty dad cam and dubbed it Bail Gun in order to document said good times. He came up with the idea to have the media guys in the house: Daniel (Boris) and I to have skate parts and after a while had enough footage of shit to make a crappy video. Then the following winter we did the same thing with the tag-line: now presented in standard definition. Which was Mall Grab.

Future plans/ upcoming events?
In a few months I'm actually moving back to my dads farm in Iowa to build a DIY park. But not until we finish this years video: Skirdoosh. Look for the trailer.. whenever Steven makes one. Video is planned to be out last week of March.

Favorite beer? Funny story about that.. I've never drank a beer before.

Drunken shred story?
Last April we went Steven and Johnnys hometown to do a premier party showing type thing at the Medford skatepark. During the day there was a local skate contest and the video was going to be projected on the deep end of the bowl after dark. At two separate points during the day Steven and I both took drunken slams and had to go to the hospital for stitches in our heads. After all the drama we ended up bagging the showing. Kind of fitting I guess.

Shout outs?
Uhh, I guess not really a shout out just more of a reminder to Shawn to send my damn beerics tshirt I bought. I want to wear it in my Skirdoosh part. the photos that i included havent been seen before (that i can remember) as well as a photo of me drunk at the mall grab premier. also, here is a link to bail gun. more people have heard of mallgrab so linking it dosnt seem important, but i dont think anyone either knows about bail gun, or knew the story behind it.