At the end of a trip that saw low and strange days, then high times and fine waves, Dion took some pictures on his Canon AE-1. They’re portraits on film: Craig Anderson, Conner Coffin, Dane Reynolds and more good friends.

Three exposures from the roll are Craig. One of those ended up on the cover of What Youth Quarterly, Issue One. Here are some of the others, with words from the photographer.

The magazine is a quarterly journal of the things we like. Surfing is definitely one of those things, but there are lots of others. They include:

Minimalism

Joy Division

Taking pictures

Staying up late

Denim

Ugliness

Sunglasses

Irresponsible drinking

LES in particular

@napkinapocalypse

Rauschenberg

Waking up elsewhere

Making movies

The short-arm fullsuit

Kolohe Andino usually

Hendrick’s Gin

Typography

Skate videos

France

Getting two new boards

Trains

Purienne

Our friends

If you like those things you’ll probably love our magazine. If you like most surf magazines as they exist currently you’ll probably hate it. We invite you to ignore the Quarterly if you think that’d be best.

Enjoy,

—What Youth

Other useful information:

What Youth Quarterly is available through our online store and in a limited selection of retailers around the world. We publish four times a year. Volume One, Issue Two (Fall 2012) will be available in September.

The Quarterly is made and printed in California.

For press inquiries please email us directly: hello at whatyouth.com

For stocking and advertising inquiries: tristin at whatyouth.com

Today marks the raising of the second pillar of What Youth: our quarterly magazine, which is now available in the Shop alongside our new shirts (click here to place an order). So yes, big news to be sure. Just to give you an idea of what you’ll find in the issue there’s some pretty rad and top-secret stuff we’ve been working on for six months.

The filet would be our feature on Kai’s forthcoming film Dear Suburbia: an excursion into the absurd. It has never-before-seen photos from New Zealand with Dane Reynolds, Craig Anderson, Conner Coffin and Dion Agius; Barbados with John John Florence, Chippa Wilson, Dusty Payne and Mitch Coleborn; and a rather mysterious zone in Australia with Chippa, Craig and Mitch that somehow didn’t end in a shark attack, contrary to our expectations.

You’ll find all sorts of other things in the magazine (which is printed on some damn nice paper) including a conversation with John John and sequences we’d be dumb not to claim as some of the best airs ever landed. Dane wrote some stuff. Dillon wrote some stuff. Matt Biolos wrote some stuff. We interviewed myriad other interesting people. There are girls, famous fashion photographers who contributed, and again, crazy surfing from those slouches mentioned above. And more.

We hope it provides a unique and interesting glimpse at things going on right now if you surf or like girls or wear clothes or listen to music or wake up in the morning sometimes and go outside.

Beautiful girls, in beautifully minimal attire, are exactly why the Greeks invented summer in the first place.

It’s natural. It’s healthy. Cue the trash pop.

Our conversation with Alex is in What Youth Issue One, on sale now here in the What Youth shop.

All of Alex’s other stuff can be found on his website, Olson Stuff.

John John is in it; his hair only makes a brief appearance.

Also inside are some of the best surf photos we’ve ever seen, girls who swore they were 18, conversation with interesting people, writing and photography by some of our favorite surfers, an ounce of rad, a dash of class, and about three dead hardwood trees in every copy because we will not skimp on paper.

We like it, and you’ll like it.

Available now.

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