Zach Cordner's photographs started with a camera he was given as a Christmas present by his grandmother. The first photographs he shot with that camera included pictures of his friends on skateboards. That camera and its more sophisticated descendants became a permanent fixture in the young skater/photographer's backpack as he continued to work on his craft for the next several years. His work is now represented in Heckler Magazine, a skate, snowboard and music culture magazine published in Sacramento. Today, Zach is enrolled in the photojournalism program at California State University, Long Beach where he works on the school newspaper as a staff photographer. One of his first assignments for the paper was to shoot a portrait of a guest speaker, actor, director, artist and photographer Dennis Hopper.