A self-taught photographer hailing from San Diego, California, Brooks Sterling's weapon of choice is film. A creative in a number of areas (he designed and coded his current website), the encouragement of his friends (also photographers) James Tull and Russell Spencer prompted him to make photography his primary focus in the past year. And it looks like it's paying off. With a variety of...
When a broken arm took him out of the water, Zak Bush picked up a camera.
"I got obsessed right from the get-go," he says. "I hounded every photographer that I knew for insight, bought books and researched stuff on the internet."
He continued to join in on surf trips with his friends, but now behind the lens. It wasn't long before his talent was recognized and his interest grew into a...
I (Natalie) met Elise Mahan at an art show in a community gallery space in Oakland, CA, back in December, just before we launched this Exhibitionists feature here on the blog. At the show, I was struck by Mahan's ethereal water colors and their ability to capture a very finite, tiny and perpetually floating moment in time. Now I'm sharing them with you, wondering if you will feel the same....
Donnie Hedden's list of inspirations: artists (Bruce Brown, Thomas Campbell), locations (New Zealand, ghost towns in West Texas), beer (New Belgium Ranger IPA), weather patterns (very windy and stormy), and most importantly—getting lost.
While growing up in Santa Barbara, California, Donnie worked on his family's pirate-themed boat ride business.
"Long days staring at the...
Sam Larson comes to us from the Pacific Northwest, where the trees are green because it rains a lot. In addition to puddles, there are also beautiful coastlines that all kinds of kooks surf throughout the year. Sam is one of them, but he's also an artist who, like so many of us, takes that passion for the ocean into the art studio (and in this case, his desk at Portland State University). He's...
Romain Juchereau is an independent filmmaker and photographer from La Rochelle, in southwest France, with a strong love of four things: analog cameras, vinyl records, longboards, and single fins. He has always wished he could have lived his youth in the 60s and 70s, at the heyday of surf culture and filmmaking. After spending time in Noosa, Australia with a 1974 analog camera and a few expired...
Lucy and Craig are artists of very different sorts--Lucy works with textiles and Craig works with wood--but their individual forms of expression come together beautifully in what they call a lifestyle, not a brand. Whatever Artlessliving is, the stuff they make is unique and inspired by their travels through land and sea, throughout New Zealand, from market to market. Working with natural...
Ray Collins is based on the south coast of New South Wales, where he works as a coal miner. It's clear through the movement and pristine coloring of his photographs that the ocean offers a stark and important contrast between the cramped, underground quarters where he spends his working hours and the sprawling openness of a breaking wave. He chose an acoustic number by Bernard Fanning that...
We met Meredith Radford when her husband sent a secret email explaining how rad her art is and wondering if we'd like to do a feature on her. In addition to that being an awesome way to surprise your wife, we thought her art was great, so we agreed and here we are. From Halifax, Nova Scotia, Meredith and her family are now living in southern Maine where she works as a freelance designer and...
Anna Ehrgott lives in LA, where there is plenty of ocean but not too many massive waves. With that, her photography is surf-centric, but it focuses less on the biggest turns, sprays and airs, and more on the little moments and bits of peacefulness that surround surfers when they are in the water. When she can swing it, she travels around the California Coast and down to Baja, so she's...