12 of the best classic surf portraits
I’m quite into my portraits at the moment. Thanks to a request from one of my magazine clients, I’ve picked back up on my quest for portrait excellence. I used to be really into my portraits portraits many years back, but after a recent portrait session here on the north shore, I’m all stoked on it again, so I thought I’d pull a dozen of my favourite portraits from the archives to share with you all. Enjoy!
Sean
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1: Long time north shore photog’ and all round nice guy; Bernie Baker in the moment.
2: Cory Lopez at the Pension Bonjouir, in Tahiti.
3: a href=”http://www.surfphotosart.com/Surf/Surf-1/10001929_iX7QT/1/684161044_W7khC#684161406_pbvQh” target=”_blank”>Derek Hyndon his endless quest for great waves.
4: Joe Curren and Franky Oberholzer, two of the funniest cats, you could put together in a bar, in Scotland.
5: I was walking along one day and happened to spot Joel Tudor
putting his classic old boards on his classic old car. Just a simple moment of serendipity, where an cool image came together, totally unplanned.
6: John John Florence back in 2000, I think. He was real young then.
7: At the Eddie Aikau big wave surfing contest ceremony at waimea Bay, a few years back. I wanted to have a little bit of motion in the image, to give it a feel of timelessness. The result was pleasing.
8: The 4 times world surfing champion; Mark Richards A really nice bloke too.
9: I love this picture of Mick Campbell. The black and white film that I was using at the time, really captured his numerous freckles and made for a compelling portrait.
10: I was hanging out with Pancho Sullivan in Tahiti several years back and he was swimming around in this super clear spring with his sunnies on. It looked cool for a portrait.
11: Martin Potter, captured here at the height of his fame as world surfing champion.
12: A young Kelly Slater back in 1992, looking like a young Elvis.
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This Is King Island by Sean Davey
I've been visiting this quaint little farming community island in Australia since the very early 90's and after 15 trips there and numerous requests from the locals, I felt it was time to put together a picture book . This is the the result. A glorious 120 page visual feast of the best moments from 15 trips, over 17 years. And although I have already published 2 books prior to this one ( Oceans and Fotografius da Alma ) this is my first completely self published book. From the camera, all the way to the printing press. This is also the highest quality book that I have produced. The wrap around hard covers in particular are amazing! You can take a full tour of the book, just below and click right through to purchasing also, if you would like a copy.
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