Born in Canada sometime between the years 1920 AD and 2000 AD, Jay Revelle started out as a bright lad, with an affinity for achieving straight As in any given subject. He spent his youth acting out fantasies of becoming a ninja, Indiana Jones, and Fletch, and he also played with maps.

Ninjitsu was great and all, but hardly realistic given his age, time period, and geographic location. As for Indiana Jones, well, he was just a character created by George Lucas (although a remarkable one at that). Heavily influenced by movies, at age 8 he picked up a skateboard in hopes of becoming Marty McFly. Becoming Fletch was and still is "on the table."

With a life path on a skateboard firmly established, Jay became a nationally recognized skateboarder during the mid-90s, with sponsors such as ATM Skateboards and Emerica (Canadian team). He then embarked on a journalism career in skateboard publishing and quickly climbed the ranks. During the late 90s/early 2000s, he was senior writer of both Color Magazine and SBC Skateboard. During this time, he picked up his first SLR film camera, a Pentax K1000, shooting mainly street scenes and cityscapes.

He soon found himself standing among other prominent Canadian contemporaries. He conducted interviews with luminaries such as actors Tom Green and Jason Lee, and yes, even Tony Little, and then broke away from the mold and moved to Japan, thereby becoming that much closer to childhood ninja dreams. There, he again expanded professionally in the field of finance/investment, language services & media consulting, and corporate communications, all under the umbrella of his own company. It was during this time that Jay returned to film photography. Steadily, his film camera collection grew "very serious," and collaboration with Jason Lee began in the form of helping to conceive of @filmphotographic, a community dedicated to film photography.

In film photography, Jay has since been focusing on making nighttime film pictures utilizing specialized developing techniques, while being inspired by the likes of Jason Lee, Henry Wessel, Todd Hido, Robert Adams, and Joel Sternfeld, etc. Jay favors darkroom printing, and prefers to stay off computers "as much as possible."

Currently, details are hazy. At one point, Jay was reported visiting the locals at an ancient ninja training village, high in the mountainous regions of Nagano, Japan. Other reports have him curled up with food poisoning on Mark Appleyard's couch in California and roaming the night spots and socialite scene of Montreal, Canada. Rest assured, Jay's future will undoubtedly be filled with many things, that is, unless he dies, which Jay hopes not to do.

In conclusion, these people and experiences have helped mold Jay into the character that he is today: happy, sad, funny, stupid, dumb, drunk, creative, and smart (sometimes). Presently, however distant from the confines of Western society, Jay still manages to get the word out, and has on occasion, offered this advice: "Put it on Underhill."