Kyle B. Lightner
"Kyle is documenting one of the most interesting and inspiring things happening in Southern California - The intensely outsider yet oddly aspirational way of life where skateboarding, surfing, motorcycles and music ceases being sports, hobbies or even sub-cultures and simply becomes what you do when you wake up. Standing in the middle of the collision, index finger on his camera, Kyle focuses in and blurs the lines between these extremely opposite, yet freakishly similar, lifestyles. It's like the world depicted in the novel S.E. Hinton would've written if she had been married to Bunker Spreckles but having a torrid love affair with Sonny Barger on the side. Because of his deep connection and involvement in his subjects, brings the fight to us and throws us in the ring with the rest of mayhem he's helped create. His images of such things come at you with a pair of brass knuckles and a smile - like a quiet lover screaming at you to understand a sonnet."

- Nick Maggio, A Time to Get