Taschen Senior Editor Jim Heimann knows as well as anyone that surfing is as much a culture as a sport. “Growing up near the beach in Southern California during the 1960s, I eagerly absorbed the ...

Surf's up in Tahiti for this year's Paris 2024 Olympics. Surfing makes its second appearance as an Olympic competition since it debuted in the Tokyo 2021 Games. French Polynesia's island of Tahiti ...

This year’s surf didn’t disappoint. There were plenty of summer hurricane swells, beautiful fall offshore wind mornings, and warm water that lasted past the typical summer months. And even the latest ...

LeRoy Grannis, a noted photographer whose widely printed images captured and popularized the surf culture of California as it exploded in the 1960s and ‘70s, has died. He was 93. Grannis, who also ...

Surf photography from the water is a tricky beast. It's an art. But it's an art that photographer Pat Stacy has accepted and mastered. You've surely seen his work — he's shot with the best of the best ...

Photography is an art. Surf photography is an art with the added puzzle of infinitely unstable elements mixed in. Surf photography from the water is a borderline impossible challenge. But it's one ...

To capture images of surfers taking on the dangerous swells in Teahupo’o, Ben Thouard must suit up himself. By John Otis Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes ...

Indonesia’s trash-strewn beaches are turning a formerly pristine surfing paradise into an endless bummer. American surf photographer Zak Noyle hopes that the images he recently captured on a remote ...

John Ogden has a complicated relationship with Australia’s oceans. He has surfed them, photographed them, written books about them, and lost an eye to them. In 1998, when Sydney’s Whale Beach was ...