As a kid, when my parents were still together, we spent long stretches in a creaky wooden beach house in Malibu – a place where surfing has been a way of life since the late ’60s. About ten years ago, after surfing near Venice Pier, I underexposed a few frames by mistake. The surfers turned into pure shape and motion, and that “error” sparked Silhouette Surfers – everyday surfers reduced to shape and timing, always fused with the ocean.

Silhouette Surfers is about presence – the moment a human, a board and a wave briefly align. The book distills years of work into an English-language, 124-page collection of surfers and surf-related stuff (movies, music etc) from around the world – a tribute to the poise and poetry of people chasing a moving horizon.

The project concluded in 2023, but it lives on in prints, exhibitions, and most accessibly, this book on Amazon.