Aamion Goodwin spent an ocean-based childhood traveling between New Zealand, Kauai and Fiji. So once the pro surfer and his longboarder wife Daize had kids, the couple decided to set out on a similar journey with their own toddler son Given and infant daughter True. The family of four spent over 13 months trekking through 15 countries including Iceland, Nepal, Morocco, Senegal and Fiji trailed by a film crew of friends and fellow wanderers who are currently editing a documentary, The Goodwin Project, about the experience. As the cameras ran, the crew also snapped photographs and 106 images are currently installed on the walls of Soho House in West Hollywood. At the exhibition opening party held on Wednesday, June 12, all four Goodwins and members of the crew reminisced about their travels. The team framed the color prints in boxes made of wood scraps garnished with True’s rubber duck and some toy cars and other significant objects from the journey. “It’s good for the kids to see what else is out there, to have a solid base and a real sense of the world,” Daize said. She noted that Cody Welsh, who worked on sound for the film, took many of the still shots depicting landscapes, seascapes, locals who the creative team met during their travels, and portraits of the Goodwins. “Cody is a jack of all trades,” she said. “And he was a nanny too, he’s my daughter’s first crush.” As her mother predicted, True’s eyes lit up when she saw Welsh at the party. Some of the shots at Soho House were displayed in February at Mollusk in San Francisco, but the Goodwin family saw the exhibition in person for the first time in L.A. “We haven’t seen the crew since September,” said Daize, adding that her family is currently living on Kauai. “My husband even went and got shoes for this.”

By Elizabeth Varnell

Pictured: Daize Goodwin in South Island, New Zealand
Photo courtesy of The Goodwin Project

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