Stowell wasn't just a fly on the wall through the group's creative ascent. Though he was only 25 at the time, Stowell was still the voice of maturity to group members who were as young as 17. "I was a babysitter and camp counselor," he recalls. "They looked at me like Uncle Brick, but Uncle Brick who would bail them out of jail or take them to the Chicago Bean. They'd say, 'Why the fuck are we going to touristy ass shit?' And I said, 'You'll thank me in 15 years when we have these magical moments that'll never happen again.'"
Earlier this month marked the 10th anniversary of Camp Flog Gnaw. About six months preceding the event, Stowell received a call from Tyler, the Creator (born Tyler Okonma) and his long-time co-manager Christian Clancy. "They asked, 'You ready?'" Stowell recalls, while wondering, ready for what? "It's the 10-year anniversary big dog! Time to do a gallery!"
But years of Stowell's work were never seen until just the last month when he launched a limited run gallery of artifacts at the music festival, Camp Flog Gnaw, authenticated through the collectibles company PSA. At that event, he also released the first in an upcoming series of photo books on Odd Future. Titled Almost Famous ($150), it's 396-pages of never seen shots from 2011-2016 of some of the most noteworthy artists of our age.
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