New Yorker Brain Bowen Smith is the enfant terrible among celebrity photographers. He can still perform the neck-breaking stunts with which he once earned his way as a pro skater. Later, after following his dream to California and settling in Los Angeles, the legendary photographer Herb Ritts hired him as a model for an ad campaign. Inspired by the scene and the lifestyle, he decided shortly thereafter to become a photographer himself. The “bad news” of which he informed his wife soon turned out to be one the best decisions of his life. Herb Ritts was his mentor and teacher for more