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Urban explorer badge1/26/2024 Something that someone wouldn’t just glance at but spend time with. “I look for that unique perspective,” says Jacob, “I try to find a different angle, or different perspective. But Jacob is adamant that it’s his vision and not the technology that sets him apart. His angle on life caught the eye of Converse for their new Chuck II campaign, collaborating with young creatives to show how you can be ‘Ready For More’ in their innovative new sneaker, and he’s also produced promotional videos and imagery for travel companies in the Dominican Republic, New York, and soon, the Philippines.Īs he’s progressed in popularity, so have his production values, and he’s added valuable tools – like a DJI Phantom Drone, which he’s flying around the abandoned military fort today – to his arsenal of aerial kit. And that’s how I’ve built my friendship group, photography-wise.”īird’s-eye views of fairytale castles, rickety rope bridges over huge bodies of rushing water, and a bottle of New Year’s Eve Dom Perignon on the roof of a high-rise are just some of the otherworldly scenarios that populate Jacob’s colourful feed. Instagram has a huge network across the world. It also allowed me to meet and shoot with other people in the community. It made me strive to push my work and provided inspiration. I love the instant feedback you get – it pushes you to do better. So I started posting my work and it got picked up really well and well received. “I wanted a place to share my work,” he says, “And I’d seen people using Instagram for more than selfies and pictures of their dinner. Jacob only joined Instagram in January 2014, but it’s completely changed his life. But fast forward to today and the twenty-one-year-old is racking up the airmiles almost as fast as Instagram followers – of which he has 260,000 – and producing incredible film and photography from some of the most remote places on the planet. Three years ago Jacob was saving to travel, putting off his University placement, and working out what he wanted to do with his life. And I feel like what I do, I can completely control. But I wouldn’t put myself in that position. “I know I could hang over a ledge, hold my own weight, and pull myself back up. “There are some people I watch – a lot of the Russians and some of those guys in Hong Kong, who are crazy,” says Jacob. But Jacob, who grew up in London, knows his limits. Sharing their work on social platforms like Instagram, this adventurous group – some of which hang by their hands from difficult-to-grab ledges thousands of feet into the sky – are gaining huge popularity in the digital world. That’s because Jacob is part of an elite community of vertiginous photographers who go to extreme heights to get the perfect shot. Today we’ve joined him to explore an abandoned old military fort in the South of England – where he’ll attempt a ‘dronie’ perched precariously on a soaring scaffolding structure – and the agile photographer effortlessly ascends chimney stacks and tiptoes along walls with hundred-foot drops either side. Jacob’s responsible but he’s certainly not risk averse. Those are probably some of the best photos I have. We just sat in the clouds and watched the sun come up. “There were really low clouds, and it was insane. Not much else to say, watch it for yourself.Photographer and adventurer Jacob Riglin is describing the time he climbed 336ft to the top of a tower on New York’s Manhattan Bridge at 3am in the morning. Extending that to corporate private property, infiltrating any place that noticeably (read permanently) affects us as a community or society is logical.” Anything funded or maintained by tax money belongs to us and we should be able to use it as we like as long as we don’t permanently damage it or cause harm to the citizen body. “We have a right to explore public infrastructure. Talk with Bradley Garrett held on Wednesday 24 October at Caroline of Brunswick during BPB12īradley Garrett discusses the motives and politics behind urban exploration. The first in a series of short documentaries focusing on the culture of Urban Exploring, those who risk it all to access and infiltrate closed or forgotten spaces.
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