ISOmag aims to bring you the best quality images and in-depth articles with a specific focus on New Zealand bodyboarders, waves and the unique New Zealand bodyboarding lifestyle. Our goal is to produce a quarterly high quality publication that utilises the latest technology that will help promote and gain international recognition for New Zealand bodyboarders, designers, photographers and writers.
Hayden “Goose” Parsons
Co-Editor / Staff Writer
A house, a mortgage, two kids and a thriving veggie garden. A stark contrast to a few years ago when he was roaming the globe filming and surfing everyday. Still giggles like a little school girl when the waves are good and plans his schedule around buoyweather forecasts. Plays a non-speaking role in the short foreign film “Girl skipping through field of mushrooms.” If that’s not your cup of tea then keep an eye out for his POV barrel footage on the net.
Chris Garden
Co-Editor / Staff Photographer / Photo Editor
The original New Zealand bodyboarding photographer, Gardy has spent the best part of the last decade traveling to, photographing and riding perfect waves in the deep south of the country and throughout the world. He manages to take some of the most amping lineup and action shots you’ll ever feast your eyes on and puts all of his success and skills down to drinking a massive 18 pack of Tasmen Bitter a week. But only if it’s on special. More info on Chris here…
Paul Mossong
Design / Art Direction
Paul makes furniture, paints pictures, draws and photographs things. He also does graffiti, stencils, drinks alcohol, smokes ganja, sells drugs, knives, machine guns, uranium and kidneys, as well as many endangered pets, like koalas, seals and dolphins. (Dead or alive. Rare or “a la plancha”, depends how you like it…) You can check out his website here.
Glen Mossong
Web Design / Development
Glen has been in the business since the 1980′s, where he grew up in Tauranga surfing the surrounding beachies. These days he rides both a lid and his green quad fin fish. He runs his own web design company with a close friend and we’re stoked he’s lent a hand helping make the ISOMAG website.
Ryan Isherwood
Senior Photographer
Ryno almost has a monopoly on capturing the most spectacular images of the Canterbury and West Coast rivermouths. Super amped and up for a mission anytime and anywhere. Spends his nine to five time slot looking after the greens at a local golf course. Word on the street is he was one of Tiger’s lassies. But we aren’t the type to gossip.
Kane McMillian
Senior Photographer
The bearded beast, Kane is our stalwart lower North Island photog. Based on the fickle Kapiti Coast, Kane isn’t afraid to put in the miles to capture some of the tasty waves this part of the country has to offer. He’s recently entered the ranks of fatherhood, but hasn’t let this stop him missioning to the infamous Bahi when it’s on.
Sam Brooks
Senior Photographer
Weighing in at 200 pounds, in the red corner we have Slugging Sam Brooks, whose images deliver a punch to the eyes of our unsuspecting readers. Spark originally hails from Christchurch, but climbed the meat worker management career ladder to our nations capital, before homesickness got the better of him. Although the waves aren’t always consistent, regular trips to the tropics and the deep south keep his hunger satiated.
Cory Scott
Senior Photographer
Without a doubt New Zealand’s best and most established surfing photographer, Cozza has been around the block a while and is now the staff photographer for New Zealand Surfing Magazine. Before ISOmag came into fruition, he didn’t bother shooting lids, preferring to snap surfers of the stand up variety. We won’t hold that against him though, and we’re stoked to have him pressing the shutter down when someone takes off prone. Cheers mate!
Jorin Sievers
Senior Photographer/Writer
A journalist by trade and a talented photographer to boot, Joz has lived an action-packed life, mixing a high-flying career as editor of a number of prominent magazines with stints of adventurous travel to exotic corners of the globe. Joz reckons he’ll have his feet planted in New Zealand for a while now, so we look forward to seeing more of his striking images and creative prose.
Lindsay Butler
Senior Photographer
The token cheeky darky in the ISOmag team. Here at ISOmag we believe in equality and we believe Lindsay’s images are equally as good as anyone else’s. When he’s not regulating the lineups of the far north he’s bobbing around snapping off pics with his new water housing or putting it all on black at Auckland Casino. A coincidence? We think not.