An introduction

I suppose the first article really should be saying welcome to Gnarrative and a little about what we intend to achieve with this new platform. I’ll start with who I am as the founder writing this and how I came up with the idea. I’m known to wear my heart on my sleeve a bit and be honest, no BS just how it is.

My name is Duncan Hague, I am or maybe you can say I was a photographer. I say that because right now just about marks a year since my income from photography stopped outweighing other income avenues, partly due to someone eating a bat in the East and partly due to relocating across the world from where I grew up in Sheffield to British Columbia, Canada and starting from scratch. Now as a photographer/content creator or however you want to pigeonhole it you really need to have an arsenal of ideas and projects that you can pitch, I have a journal stuffed with them, they all have a particular trend though. They’re stories I want to tell, stories I’d want to read, not necessarily popular or profitable.

So what would I want to tell? Stories that strike a chord with me, inspire me, pull a few heart strings, that get me excited, motivate and empower people to do good. Time will tell with what gets documented on Gnarrative but I can tell you exactly what it won’t be. We’re not into product reviews, vlogs, how to ride videos, click bait and influencing. We’re into rad people doing rad things, particularly unsung heroes doing rad things. That too leads on to why I created Gnarrative, these tales and the style isn’t particularly ‘on trend’ these days. Gnarrative is for the few not the many, we’re not into pleasing everyone and we likely won’t, but I’m confident there is a small crowd out there that could be inspired and hopefully stoked on what we can document for them.

I was asked recently as part of an interview for a magazine what inspires me to shoot, my answer? I just get drawn in by riders doing rad things and have this compelling urge to document it, purely because it excites me, it’s a passion and I love being part of the culture. I go a bit nuts if I’m not being creative for a period of time so after a bit of a drought I came up with a way to satisfy that need, that’s personally why I came up with the platform.

So grab a cup of your favourite brew and enjoy.