Oli gagnon biography

BEYOND PRETENSE: Destinations Unknown with Oli Gagnon

Words: Harrison Gordon. Photos and Captions: Oli Gagnon

Blake Paul, Mike Ravelson, Pat Moore and Arthur Longo hiking into the backcountry surrounding Brighton Resort, UT.

We were going out to build some jumps or something like that, en route to stack some shots for Vans Snow’s Evergreen.

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Although I traveled the world with Oli Gagnon for the better part of a decade, I knew his work long before that.

As a young snowboard fan in the late ’90s, I would study magazines meticulously and memorize not only the tricks, riders and captions, but the photographer’s names as well. Oli’s work always stood out, and his name was burned into my subconsciousness from the start.

Oli was born in and grew up in Loretteville, QC.

He was hired by Snowboarder Magazine about and has been snapping photos for the best snowboarding magazines and brands ever since, most recently as a Va