Ray Barbee: A Common Thread - An ILFORD Inspires film 

Nothing but love and inspiration. ❤️

"life is too short and there is a lot of fun to be had "

Oh snap Ray rockin the 2kxl!

Such a talent. Had no idea people still used dark rooms! Last time I was in one was in college back in the early 90's. Great shots! So true about the emotion of black and white. Very cool and inspiring. 😊

Ray Barbee is the man!

This series started on a high note! As a 32-yr old who grew up skating, playing guitar and taking photos this speaks to me on so many levels!

So good and a inspiering a film👍😉 Thank you very very much🙏🏻🤗

a true legend, and what a humble and inspiring man

Awesome videoo.....Props to Ray Barbee

Rad to see ilford do a series on these three legends.

You are always an inspiration Ray!

Black and white and vinyl makes your brain work to add the color!

skateboarding, film photography, MPC, vinyl, eurorack... this is basically all my hobbies combined

I have a lot of memories growing up in San Jose I’m the same neighborhood as Ray, at Sierramont Middle and Independence high. Mike Griffin’s ramp! A guy that made everything look so effortless and so easy going. I was skating at the same time, but could only dream of the talent Ray had. An inspiring guy and happy to see he is still following his passions. Oh and I remember we both have the same birthday, Oct 5. Soon we’ll be 50! Funny the things we remember.😁✌️

That's long beach !!! Crazy

Nice short documentary.

Really nice video. What a great guy.

Wonderful piece of film making on many levels. Thank you.

Awsome videos! I have now subcribed. Thanks Ilford.

Ray is the best

Never realized there was a connection between skateboarding and film photography but I see it now

A very great video, Me and Ilford from childhood.

Love you, Ray Barbee!

4:51 The basketball shot!!!!!

As expected, Musicians and Photography go hand in hand.;)

Another of my favorite skaters and photographers, this made me want to go take photos!

What a beautiful human being and film. Thank you for sponsoring this Ilford!

A wonderful film.. Thank you.

Fantastic music. Great to see a film about combined passions.

LOVE this! Love Ray, love his vibe and his work. So stoked to see this series.

Excellent

Outstanding film short. Rays explanation of the imperfections making it perfection is spot on! Well done guys!

such a lovely memory...I used to ride Ray's Hydrant back in the 90' ❤️

So humble and so positive!! You are a great person Ray Barbee!! And always so on it with Nocomply Shifties!!

Balsam to my soul🎼🎼

Awesome ❤️

Beautiful video thanks for sharing

Long Live Film

Totally inspired

This was amazing! Thank you!

This really touches a part of me as I came up in the early 80's and 90's skateboarding era, and this time was also my early steps into photography beginning with shooting friends downtown in the Village (NYC) and also in BMX (Freestyle and Racing). Those were great days and I'm glad to see that there have been so many sk8rs who were bitten by the film bug. Also, Ray's film style reminds me very much of Gordon Parks and Roy DeCarava during the Harlem renaissance period, excellent imagery.

Thank you

this was beautiful.

beautiful! thank you for sharing

Yeah very cool... thanks for sharing

Great video and very chill dude. Now i want to go out and shoot :)

Well done. Inspiring. I concur w Jahan...looking forward to seeing more. Film's imperfection is its perfection!

Thank you for this wonderful short film. Skateboard magazines were my reason to start with photography 20 years ago. Still shooting film a lot. Ray Barbee & Ilford 🖤

This was awesome! Keep these docos going.

Grew up in the backyard ramp era and pushed hard into street right around when Ray was just coming up. Always had a love for photography which carries this day. Honestly, I hadn't heard his name in decades, and it's so great to see in this context. Looks and sounds like he did really good for himself. Elated. Nice shot of Lance, btw. Great job on the documentary too.

This is just beautiful.

glad ray is doing great. he was cutting edge back in the early days of street skating.

Ray has always been on oh my favorite skateboards, so rad to see him in this.

Love it!

This is magic Ray, beautiful words and documentary. So nice to feel the passion and love here thank you Ilford also for keeping these dreams alive with incredible film.

Lovely man.. Cool film.. Sweet....x

One of the best human beings and super talented. Ray is and always will be someone I look up to.

Cool stuff!

I've always been a Ray Barbee fan, just seems like one of the nicest guys ever!

Beautifully made movie.... one hell of a talented guy. He gets it. Miss my analog camera. Keep making it relevant!

Great film! I enjoyed it very much! Thank you! 😃👍🏻

Cool documentary love black and white film.doc has a classic feel to it and is well filmed with cool music 👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

Beautiful!

Excellent video! Cool guy, full of inspiration.

Inspirational stuff, great.

So good. Please make this a series.

Thank you Ray for this inspirational peak into your life and art! 👏👏👏

Awesome

You are absolutely right about that

Wooow gotta be the best so far...love it Ilford and Ray

This is gorgeous and so relatable.

Keep comin pls. Well done

Great work. Hard to capture all that Ray has in him, this does justice to a inspirational person that al know him. Looking forward to more of these. Thanks for this.

Love it! Such a big inspiration.

Loved this!

Thank you guys

I loved this, thanks for this Ilford Photo!

amazing i really can not wait to see more of these. DO NOT STOP

I miss being in the darkroom a bunch...someday I’ll find a way back in...great vid...looking forward to the others in the series

Such an inspiring and entertaining bit, I’ve watched this many times already, just beautiful 🖤

This is really great. Love the music!

Great series :)

This series is amazing. Looking forward to more content! :-)

This is an outstanding piece 10 out of 10. I don't know what else to say but thanks for this video I like how it merged film with skating with music. It's perfect. Respect

always happy to see when ilford creates a video! thanks for sharing this great content with us! really enjoyed watching this

What Video !!! Really !! Thats amazing. !!! I'm felling so inspired !!

Well put together clip, I met Barbee once, I didn’t know who he was, he was genuinely a cool dude.

What a cool guy!

Shout out to the PT01 and Ray... if you get a real turntable, amp, and speakers and play a cleaned record there is no pop and sizzle. Those sounds are not supposed to be part of the vinyl experience at all. Buy some record cleaning tools and poly inner sleeves for your vinyl and your mind will be blown I promise. I started with the PT01 portable myself and deciding to buy a nice entry level setup was one of the best decisions of my life. I later upgraded to a slightly sub pro setup but it cost me dearly. I found a $3000 turntable for $800 which was a deal I couldn't pass up but in order to afford it I had to part with one of my most prized possessions.... My Mint purple 1st edition Ray Barbee pro model that you so graciously signed at the 1up bar in Denver a few years back. I still have the pics of you signing it and I photographed the shit out of it before I let it go.... have a print up on my fridge to this day. Your a top favorite skater of mine and such a rad person generally I thank you for the bits of joy you brought to my life. Later days

Absolutely fantastic series. Love it

wow wow wow. thank you for putting this out.

oh man what an amazing work you are doing on this, ilford. great vibe, great filming, great artist. thx for this. :)

More!

Awesome :)

Some people have just got their shit together, this is one cool cat.

Funny thing is the closes skateboard shop near me when i was a kid was in Ilford where i bought my first pro-skateboard(Natas mini) :)

Inspirational and reminded me that I rather load 120 or 220 film instead of 35 mm film.

Cool guy. It really comes across.

long beach - big up to rob torres venture team with ray i seen them two kik start each other

Next.about Magnum photographers please :)