My passion for photography started when I was 15, my close friend Jonno Merkl was inspiring me constantly with his work behind the lens.

Jim was the first New Zealand photographer to make the finals of the prestigious ‘Follow the Light’ international surf photography awards in 2013

I have been hanging the flip flops in South Florida for the last few decades. Living in a coastal community that has year round warm temperatures and great ocean visibility provides me the opportunity year round to harness its beauty. I’ve always had a passion for photography and the ocean.

Since I was introduced to the ocean and a bodyboard, I was utterly obsessed with the sea; all my free time was spent submerged in water, no matter the conditions.

Warren Keelan, a seascape and ocean photographer living on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Warren spends most of his days alongside or within the ocean, interpreting what I see through the medium of digital photography.

Kim Feast: It is too easy to list accomplishments. What is more difficult is to define the character required to achieve such things. With a diverse range of skills across photography, film, surfing and design Kim Feast is hard to pin down.

Jake Osman by Andrew Semark: In an age awash in digital imagery, we decided it was time to celebrate the great surfing photo and the skilled artists who capture them.

The story behind the image – Russell Ord explains how he ended up in the impact zone at the Box and snared an iconic image of super grom Jack Robinson 

Amber shares these interactions for others to have a deeply immersive experience through her photography, bringing awareness to these beautifully gentle elements of the ocean that would otherwise go unseen. “Being immersed in the sea as a new day breaks, and witnessing up close the magnificent play of water and light, it’s nature’s magical elixir.”

Shannon Glasson is a photographer from Cronulla, Australia. She has an incredible connection with the ocean and a fearless approach to shooting at heavy, open-ocean reefs

Frances 'Fran' Miller is a Sydney born photographer now living on the Gold Coast of Australia. Specializing in fine art surf and water photography, Fran's work has been published in numerous publications across Europe, Asia, and Australia, having worked with a large number of world-renowned brands and surfers.

A particular perspective is a specific way of thinking about something, especially one that is influenced by your beliefs or experiences or perspective is the art of making some objects or people in a picture look further away than others.

Domenic Mosqueira, the little Mexican, international male model ( a cracking story for another day over several beers), family man and professional surf photographer based in Tahiti, also speaks several languages.

Oxygen fuels our cells and helps provide the basic building blocks that our bodies need to survive.

Andre and Nush have a huge passion for the ocean. They have worked beneath or on the ocean most of their lives, which has given them a deep knowledge of marine life.

Charlotte Piho is a multi-international award-winning photographer and is becoming widely recognised as one of the most followed female artists in oceanic photography.

Mike Riley is a hard-working Crayfisherman and Photographer based in Kalbarri, Western Australia nestled at the mouth of the Murchison River, a unique fishing town surrounded by rugged inland gorges and coastal cliffs.

Unable to travel, photographer Russell Ord used the COVID-19 lockdown to shoot this community series of portraits of local surfers