Big Wave Photography Up Close + Personal | D. Dunfee’s redefinition
Is it just us or do big waves get kinda boring? I mean they are big and mean and should be the most exciting part of surfing, but it just isn’t. It’s mostly slow and often burgery and it’s the same few waves around the world every year. BUT… there’s a light in the photography of Derek Dunfee who captures the nuances of the heavy water and culture behind it. He sees it because he can and has charge those same damn waves. And nuances as we know are what make surfing so damn great.
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Derek Dunfee has been intimate with big lumps of water for some time. Over the last 10 to 15 years, Derek’s established himself as one of the most respected of surfing’s strange clan of alpha males—big wave surfers. Growing up in southern California (his beloved La Jolla to be exact), big waves changed everything for Derek, and since being exposed to them, regardless of sponsors, budgets, work, life, he’s geared everything towards being in the right place to experience the ocean when it’s at its most beautiful and ferocious. Derek’s still very much on the programme, but his priorities have shifted. His immigration form now reads ‘Photographer” under occupation rather than “Surfer.”
Click to MONSTER CHILDREN for an interview with Derek Dunfee about the future of his big wave photography
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