Photographer Meet-Up and Mini Workshop at The Uninvited Invitational

The Uninvited Invitational is an unrivaled snowboarding event that brings together the best women and non-binary rail riders from all over the world for a multi-day contest fueled by a supportive, rising-tide-raises-all ethos. From the jump in 2023, @the__uninvited Invitational was immediately a must-attend week, not only for riders, but for photographers, filmers, and writers seeking to capture some of the most explosive snowboarding of the season.

We are incredibly grateful to The Uninvited crew who supported us as we held our first photographer meet-up and mini workshop during the four-day event. @jendephoto, @thrashley_photo, and @walshmt provided the foundation for connection, collaboration, and constructive feedback for a group of photographers from all over the world who were at @woodwardparkcity for the week.

Events and contests move so fast that the opportunity to gather and meet your creative peers is usually totally missed. By kicking off The Uninvited Invitational with a casual meet-up, we established a platform for connection right off the bat—because creative expression is strengthened by collaboration and feedback and connecting is the necessary catalyst.

In the mornings, we met in the Woodward Hub before heading outside for group photo review. Stephan, Ashley, and Mary shared constructive feedback and answered questions, providing information that could be enacted in real time during the following day’s photography. This sort of peer mentorship and teamwork was so exciting, to put it lightly(!); so many times as photographers we are reliant on only our own trial and error to improve. Working in concert with varying perspectives is such an incredible tool to improve your work and we are grateful to have done so together at The Uninvited Invitational.

Thank you so much to @jess.kimura, @nirvanaortanez, @_apgf and The Uninvited crew for giving us the space to get together. Thank you to Stephan Jende and Ashley Rosemeyer for sharing their time, experience, passion, and knowledge.

Thank you to all of the photographers who hung out with us! Here are a few of the incredible images they captured!

Photo credits:
1. Gwynnie Park. photo: Emma Dubrovsky
2. Jess Kimura. photo: Hannah Sourbeer
3. Brantley Mullins. photo: Leigh LaBrake
4. Tomoyo Oishi. photo: Anna Burch
5. (l to r) Marsha Hovey, Mary T. Walsh, and Stephan Jende. photo: Emma Dubrovsky
6. Kennedi Deck. photo: Stephan Jende
7. Maisy Hoffman. photo: Emma Dubrovsky
8. Shizuku Hanada. photo: Leigh LaBrake
9. Jess Perlmutter. photo: Vincent Yang
10. Ylfa Rúnarsdóttir. photo: Maisy Hoffman
11. Michelle Tierney. photo: Maisy Hoffman

There are so many more incredible photos. Follow these photographers and The Uninvited to see more.