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 ...

You see a surfer on an advertisement or a postcard and think, “This guy never owned a pair of pants in his life.” But do you roll your eyes and dispatch him with the thought, “What a loser”? No, ...

Every year, Cocoa Beach, Florida, stages the effervescent "Surfing Santas" event, a "surf-off" and costume contest attended ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO - May 27, 2010 - Love good surf pics? 365 Surf Days www.365SurfDays.com is 225 days into year long surf photo project. Great rides, ripping surfers, picturesque locations, and beautiful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...