Portfolio: Group Show

High-performance acrobatics. Candy-colored sled shows. Slabs in 35mm. A collection of work from 14 of today’s best surf photographers.

Light / Dark

Pattern recognition: an observant student can learn volumes watching a master hunter select, track, and kill a quarry. Mike Stewart, Pipeline. Photograph by Ryan Craig.
The two ends of the modern surf block on display during a winter run through the South Coast of New South Wales. Harry Bryant skips for a mid-tube hurry-up. Photograph by John Respondek. 
Benny Howard hits the apex of a high-hang-time punt. Photograph by John Respondek. 
Dane Reynolds, down carve at Rocky Point—classical theory of on-rail speed management updated with his own through-the-lip application. Frame grab by Jimmy Wilson.
Mike Siordia, figure study in Manhattan Beach, California. Photograph by Jon Way.
Somewhere between a ruined cobblestone dream and a heavily restricted sandspit, this roadside bend occasionally comes out of neutral with proper fueling. Dana Meaney, California. Photograph by Steve Bissell.
Bryce Young, pre-surf psych-up ahead of a 45-minute paddle. Photograph by Corban Campbell.
“The swell angles created by the underwater canyons surrounding Nazaré are a phenomenon,” says photographer Josh Tabone. “This particular afternoon was the first proper swell of the season. The sand had banked up and become steep over the long, hot, flat summer. We wandered down to watch it get ripped off the beach.”
Noah Lane, County Clare, Ireland. “This angle,” says photographer Al Mackinnon, “from the other side of the bay takes a bit of reaching and is particularly precarious, the worst of all being the rocks that fall hundreds of feet from above. I saw a cascade fall almost exactly on this spot not long ago. I won’t be shooting from there again. Glad to have this photo in the bag of Noah’s matador stance.”
Benji Brand, over the gunwale and in at daybreak, Tahiti. Photograph by Seth de Roulet.
Teahupoo via 135mm. Photograph by Ray Collins. 

[Feature image: Cliff Kapono, pier-jump as shortcut to outer waters. Central California. Photograph by Corban Campbell]