Sandow Birk

19/08/2008

Our most sought after moments, caricatured.

There is a lot of mediocre surf and wave related art around. It must be hard to portray the real atmosphere that goes with a world class wave on a good day on canvas - the waves themselves, the carpark scene, the chatter, and the general buzz.

Cold Front Moving Across Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa, by Sandow Birk

Figure 1:Cold Front Moving Across Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa, by Sandow Birk

Sandow Birk’s takes on a few famous waves on their day really caught my eye. You can feel the extremity of the elements - the metaphorical and physical distance between the anticipation in the warm foreground, and the cold hard action in the background. The weather, the insignificant detail, the people, the way nature is serving up something very special.

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