Ari Marcopoulous

Book cover of The Chance is Higher by Ari Marcopoulous

text by JEFF RIAN

The Chance is Higher, published by Dashwood, New York
www.dashwoodbooks.com

 

Ari marcopoulos was born in Amsterdam and moved to New York City in 1979. He printed photographs for Andy Warhol and later became involved in the thriving hip-hop scene, photographing artists like Fab 5 Freddy, Run-D.M.C., and the Beastie Boys. He followed the latter group around for six years, shooting them constantly, and eventually produced the book, Pass the Mic, a Beastie Boy vade mecum, in 2001. Marcopoulos now lives in Sonoma, California.His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Interview, Paper, Blind Spot, and many snowboarding magazines. He is also a filmmaker and an artist. One of his themes concerns the risky, youthful netherworlds of hip-hop, skating, snowboarding, and tagging, which also lead to reflections on normal life…