Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Editor’s letter<br />
EISA BAKOS (COVER), SCOTT SERFAS<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
THIS ISSUE<br />
EISA BAKOS<br />
“I witnessed some of the<br />
craziest gaps done on a<br />
BMX,” says the Peckhambased<br />
photographer, who<br />
documented the production<br />
of More Walls for our cover<br />
story. High praise from a man<br />
who has been shooting bike<br />
action for a decade, runs his<br />
own BMX magazine (Endless),<br />
and happily calls Bas Keep<br />
a close friend. “Shooting him<br />
is always easy.” Page 30<br />
MARK JENKINS<br />
The American author and<br />
explorer has journeyed to<br />
some of Earth’s deadliest<br />
regions writing for, among<br />
others, Outside magazine<br />
and National Geographic. His<br />
experience makes his take on<br />
climber Marc-André Leclerc<br />
all the more insightful. “Live<br />
in the world of alpinism and<br />
you, or someone close to you,<br />
will die,” he says. “Michelle<br />
Kuipers deeply understood<br />
her son’s passion.” Page 46<br />
FREEDOM<br />
FIGHTERS<br />
“A lot of us think of the things we’d like to do, but we hold back.<br />
What would you do if you were able to overcome the things<br />
you’re afraid of?” says Michelle Kuipers, mother of climber<br />
extraordinaire Marc-André Leclerc (page 46). Few will ever<br />
successfully tap into that courage. Some examples, however,<br />
can be found within the pages of this month’s The <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong>.<br />
Cover star Bas Keep (page 30) is one of the world’s most daring<br />
BMXers, but it took most of his life to realise his greatest trick,<br />
as seen in his new film, More Walls. On the way, he discovered<br />
something more vital: fatherhood. Jazz composer Cassie Kinoshi<br />
(page 40) uses her music to speak out on issues of diversity in<br />
Britain, but what matters most is that she’s in control of her own<br />
narrative. Photographer Andrew Eisebo (page 58) wants to show<br />
a side of his home city – Lagos, Nigeria – that’s rarely seen in the<br />
media; not of crime, congestion or poverty, but of celebration.<br />
Elsewhere, Louise Vardeman (page 26) pushed herself to the<br />
brink, cycling the route of the Tour de France in the hope it<br />
would pave the way for a women’s event – she succeeded on<br />
both counts. And smalltown boy Kofi McCalla (page 28) followed<br />
his dream of entering the hallowed halls of the fashion world<br />
and advising Drake on what to wear. Enjoy the issue!<br />
Canadian climber Marc-André Leclerc sleeps beneath the stars. For his<br />
unique and amazing story, as shown in the film The Alpinist, see page 46<br />
THE RED BULLETIN 05
Change language