For more information go to: LaforetAIR.com

AIR is a project born of my need to share an important lesson I’ve discovered over the past decade making aerial photographs: the world is much smaller than we think. Borders are irrelevant and distances shortened. Clearly, we are more intimately connected to one another than we may realize. AIR is a once a lifetime experience for our team and I’d like to pay that passion and excitement forward with as many of you as possible. I chose the title AIR because it’s something we all share and are all equally responsible for. By definition AIR doesn’t belong to anyone. It belongs to us all regardless of background, social status and origin, as does this project. I want to invite you to share your stories and come together at a series of meet ups* we are organizing in each new city that we travel to thanks to everyone one of you who has supported AIR and a few visionary sponsors* (including G-Tech & Storehouse) who have helped this project take flight. I sincerely hope you will share in the joy of AIR. I hope these images make you smile, or think, or feel for just a moment a little more connected to somebody you’ve yet to meet. Please spread this experience with others. Will you take the next step and become directly involved in telling your stories of your cities? A few of you will be invited to fly with us over your cities and many of you will be invited to join us for pre-flight meet ups in each city that we visit, this project will reach its full potential only once you share YOUR stories about your lives, those close to you, and your city with others around the world. Finally, you always have the option to directly support the project by visiting the store on this site as the majority of those funds will directly go towards helping us visit more cities and continue to share Air with with everyone. If you made it this far, I guess I can safely say: Welcome aboard to project AIR! Sincerely - Vincent Laforet

First Light. It's calling it an early night so that you can wake up in time to get those clean waves in an empty lineup. It's dragging yourself out of bed while the rest of the City's just finding their way home. “First Light” is a short film chronicling how one surfer strikes that balance between city living and the surf lifestyle and how Pret-à-Surf clothing support her versatility. The call of the waves takes her from a night out on the town through her early morning escape to a nearby beach. Her journey takes place between night and day, between concrete and sand, between a social and an active lifestyle. It’s in that space that the Pret-à-Surf woman seeks harmony among the chaos of the storm. That’s First Light.

Credits: Producer: Joshua Steen - ROOT Studios Starring: Katy Farmer Director: Anthony Subietas Director of Photography: Chris Parker Editor: Arliss Lance Music: Tom Kiedel Wardrobe: Pret-à-Surf

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