My name is Devon Cardamone and I'm 29 years old. I was born and raised in Aspen, Colorado and grew up ski racing. That was my whole world and life and it took me to Vermont to ski race on the NCAA circuit on the East Coast through college. Being raised in such a competitive environment, I was pretty quick to ditch it all in my early twenties. I’d always surfed a bit, but got more into surfing through the winters in the northeast. I moved out to Southern California the first chance I got and continued surfing every day, religiously.
My mom being an incredible portrait photographer, I always loved her work but something told me to avoid those kind of gigs and commercial work at all costs. I refused to touch a digital camera and began capturing life and the world around surfing. Street photography in a sense, but also just everything I see and do in life. Now, I also use watercolor paint to add to the feeling and better convey the energy around everything I see.
I’m inspired by the free spiritedness of surfing that I could no longer find in the image-centric and expensive skiing world and the way that an analog camera lets me capture moments without a chance for review or comparison. I get what I get and want to show the world these real, uncontrived moments.