www.timzimmerman.com

Tim Zimmerman has been clicking the shutter in cold climates for over eleven years. Originally from Pennsylvania, he moved to Vermont and began shooting the likes of Danny Kass, Kyle Clancy and Zach Leach, who would go on to become top pros for Mervin Manufacturing. Through his work with Mervin, he teamed up with Travis Rice and served as the principle photographer for the epic movie saga, “That’s It, That’s All.”

Photography has taken Tim around the world, and his work has been featured in snowboard publications worldwide. He currently works closely with Mervin Manufacturing as their staff photographer.

Tim Zimmerman is partnered with artist Mike Parillo

History of photo chosen for the project:

It was my 2^nd trip to California and Snow Summit. I was traveling with Zach Leach, Kyle Clancy & Colin Langlois on a stop to a Vans Triple Crown. We had just finished up an urban mission of our own when I got a call from an unfamiliar number. Someone had given Jeffy my info and he asked if we could stay and shoot him hitting the rail at the Big Bear Lake middle school. I had never really met Jeff before, except in passing and I couldn’t believe that out of all the heavy photographers available at that event that he’d call me.

I remember showing up at the rail and just feeling Jeff’s energy. He was so stoked to be giving it a shot. Jared Slater & Curt Morgan were there filming for the first Grenade movie. In fact, that’s Curt lurking in the middle of the rail getting the fisheye shot that was shown in slow-mo in Full Metal Edges.

I walked around looking for angles and decided to play it safe & try to get a sequence from fairly straight on. When I opened my bag I realized that I was down to my last 3 rolls of film! Slater told me not to stress, that Jeff would get it in a couple tries. It was a huge deal to me; I didn’t want to blow it over something as rookie as not having enough film!

Jeff’s first couple of tries were gnarly. At one point he found himself upside down in the tree next to the rail. Another try had him clipping his nose on the end of the rail & slamming super hard on the bottom. I thought he was going to call it but decided to give it another go. When I looked at my camera I realized that I was down to my last 12 frames on my last roll of film. Jeff got a whip in from Zach Leach & Scotty Arnold, locked on and then blasted to flat off the kink. When he stood back up my camera locked up, at the end of the roll. I just couldn’t believe that something could work out like that. Last try, last roll, last frame of film, last time I ever had the pleasure of working with Jeff Anderson. I had been struggling so hard and to have someone like Jeff put his faith in me was tremendous. In a lot of ways it felt like a new start.