I met Philip in Toronto, the evening before the first MODCON event. Shannon and I had thrown around the names of plenty of well known photographers to document the event (Joel Peter Witkin was contacted but couldn’t comply with our requests) and the job finally fell into Philip’s capable hands.

We were all so goddamn young. That was ten years ago.

Philip documented all of the Modcon events and when the time came for a portrait photographer for the first Scarwars event, there was only one name on the list. Phil worked under grueling conditions for three straight 15+ hour days and produced a body of images that helped put faces to the new scarification culture.

Today is his birthday, so send him some love.