Editorial
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The Medium Doesn’t Matter
In Life magazine’s 1962 “The Call of California” issue, “painting surfboarder” Robert Irwin stands on the beach at Pacific Ocean…
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What Do You Think of Bobby Martinez Now?
It’s exactly nine o’clock on a hot, bright, breathless Monday morning in Santa Barbara, California, and Bobby Martinez gets right…
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Nothing More. Nothing Less.
In 1997, I was studying photography at a community college in San Diego when I saw a small photo of…
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Where Seabirds Soar
I lean into the sharp twists and turns of Topanga Canyon until, at the end of a narrow worn-asphalt street,…
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Portfolio: John Barton
Shoot the Guests A surfed-out hush has fallen over the Pitstop Hill resort after sundown, and Johnny Jungle—né John Barton—slumps…
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Blue Antidote
One morning, I watched an Army vet named Aaron paddle out in Manhattan Beach with a group of 15 other…
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On the Rocks at Point Panic
Only six minutes remain in the last heat of the 2024 International Bodysurfing Association World Tour Finals at Point Panic,…
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A Kindred Spirit
I first met Walter in the mid-’50s, when I was a 4-year-old, peeling-nose, sun-bleached beach kid. My mom, a divorcée…
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An Activator of Creative Dreams
I first met Francis “Duke” Boyd in the summer of ’63 at Ole Surfboards in Seal Beach, where I worked…
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Lee-Ann Curren
Apple | Spotify | YouTube Lee-Ann Curren grew up and lives in Biarritz, in the southwest of France. Her father…
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Tom Carroll
Apple | Spotify | YouTube Thomas Victor Carroll is a surfing godhead from Newport Beach, Australia, known for his radicality,…
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Ed Templeton
Apple | Spotify | YouTube Ed Templeton is a professional skateboarder, contemporary artist, and photographer. A teen skate prodigy from…