Born in Riverside, California in 1985, LaRue is self taught and lives in Seattle. For 15 years he made video movies, documenting skateboarders with a prosumer camcorder. Among others, he worked for companies such as Emerica Shoes, Bones Wheels, and Powell-Peralta. In 2014 he broke his left thumb and had to find a new line of life. In 2017 LaRue travelled to Shanghai to work on his first editorial piece of work.
