Photo: Chris Brunkhart
Brunkhart combines snowboarding photographs with
other images he has captured from around the world.Photographer Chris Brunkhart is working on a new art book that will serve as a culmination of his 20 years as a snowboarding photographer entitled "How many dreams in the dark?"

Chris has a rather poetic description of the project on his website:

"Looking back, it seems the compulsion to photograph has been the main force driving me through life. I have been shooting photographs now for over 20 years, experiencing and sharing in the lives of my friends. The camera was always there to document their every move. From Alaska to Chile, from Japan to the Czech Republic, I shared moments more intimate than I ever thought possible. I discovered visionaries thinking, painting, reading, and laughing. I paused in fleeting moments to forever capture cityscapes at twilight, sunrises on beaches, and sunsets atop mountains.

This book is a result of those experiences, created in part to expose the roots that spurred the astonishing growth of snowboarding. It is the story of my youthful adventures of discovery, adventures made while documenting the youthful discoveries of others.
Why all the effort? Why all the wanderlust, cold nuts and file cabinets weighted with thousands of negative sleeves. The reason was to share, to share dreams and visions with others. An unabridged dream must be shared through an unabridged media, not through a magazine or advertisement where celebrity, fashion, and marketability dtictate the content of personal and communal dreams. To share the dirty, the real, the raw, to show the genuine sport and the people at their most genuine, requires a method of communication that is itself dirty, raw, and most importantly, real."

The book will be available for purchase in Fall 2010, but only if the project gets enough funding in time. Check out his Kickstarter website to learn more about the project or donate to the cause. Donations of $25 or more will receive prizes like t-shirts and buttons.