After a long wait it is finally here, the Peanut Butter Sandwich Program issue#12!!!
The Peanut Butter Sandwich Program#12!!! Weeeheee! It’s back! It’s alive! It’s better than ever... maybe... some of the older issues are amazing. They just all live in their own little space in time. Which is exactly what the underlying theme of this issue is: Perception, what is real and does it matter!
We now live in a world in which open-world video games, virtual reality and face tuning is understood as normal. We accept that voices are on auto-tune and that cars can drive themselves. I can take a selfie with my Iphone and within minutes change myself into a woman, on that Iphone. I can then animate the photo to where I am yodeling, mouth movements and all. What is real? And does it matter anymore?
I had spent some thoughts on revisiting the PBSP and publish another issue but the final push came from my friend Bryon Friedman over a conversation by a campfire at Jalama Beach recently. Fittingly the person, my friend Marcus Elliott, who was there when the initial idea for the PBSP was formed many moons ago while surfing, also at Jalama, was sitting on the other side of me. How could I ignore this? I couldn’t. It was time.
But this time it won’t just be a journal of personal projects mixed with some assignment work, thoughts and behind the scenes shananigans. Over the past year I built a gallery site from which my artwork can be acquired. So I want to showcase pieces that you can actually buy after you see them on the pages in here. The site is located at galleryjonas.com, go check it out, I promise I try my best not to be a salesman but make it about the enjoyment of the work.
I’ll leave you to it but always remember: This magazine is real! Everything in here is real! ...or is it...? Stay groovy! Whether shit is real or not, it’ll be better if you have your groove going.
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Featuring portraits of World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist surfer Carissa Moore, Kerry Washington, Kyle Korver, Laird Hamilton and more.
The story behind my portrait shoot with Italian war hero Pino Lella in Italy. Pino is the protagonist of Mark Sullivan’s novel Beneath a Scarlet Sky and this very novel was the reason I was crossing the alps one glorious October morning to meet and photograph Pino Lella at his house on the shore of Lago Maggiore.
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Barbuda
I ventured back to Barbuda to check-in on the island and how they have recovered from hurricane Irma in 2017. Moreover there is now fishy business happening with developments of luxury resorts so Matt Wier and I talked to a bunch of locals and officials to get the local spin on the situation. Read the whole story in the pages of the Peanut Butter Sandwich Program issue#12.
