It seems that snowboarding often loses the plot with its own obsession of all things new. Flip open the pages of the latest mag and the only thing you'll ever find is the newest rock stars spinning their way through the latest flavor-of-the-month trick. Photos with board graphics more than six months old are
routinely canned by photo editors desperate to quench the thirst of readers whose sole obsession seems to be focused exclusively on whatever they are told is sure to be the latest and greatest.
This is where the work of Philippe Fragnol stands apart. Philippe is an artist who takes snowboard photography to a higher level. Indeed to call it
snowboard photography is to do it a grave injustice because his work is so much more than that. His vivid imagination combined with an eye that sees not only riders and maneuvers but also the grace and the elegance that defines the core of snowboarding and exposes it within the greater context of the grandeur of the mountains makes him a photographer operating far beyond the limited confines of snowboarding. White Spirit is a book that anyone who loves the mountains will appreciate. The images within are inspiring, provocative, and even more uniquely, timeless.