The “surf industry” is a broad and sprawling term that includes everything from Wavestorms to the WSL to surf wear to wax. According to Wikipedia, the average surfer in the...

          In “Every Building on the Sunset Strip,” the artist Ed Ruscha photographed the mile-and-a-half-long Sunset Strip and presented it in a 25-foot-long, accordion-folded book that takes...

The history of surfing is the history of surfboard design. As boards evolved, so did the imaginations of surfers. You would not have stood on the beach at yet-to-be-ridden Pipeline...

“You can see the down line, and then there’s the up line,” said 59-year-old Steve Olson, in his cluttered art studio off Melrose in Hollywood. Clad in black boots, black...

I first met Andrew Kidman in the surf at North Narrabeen on the first day of my first trip to Australia in 1986. I knew no one; I paddled out...

The first time I saw Tom Curren surf was at Hammond’s Reef in Santa Barbara, right around 1980. I was with my brother, Steven, we’d arrived in the morning with...

90-year-old Leigh Josephson is a humble man. He is unlikely to tell you that he rode his first wave in Santa Cruz in 1948, or that his surfing buddies included...

In normal times, September would be the month of the Monterey Jazz Festival. But like so many of the events we look forward to in summer, it has been cancelled...

Kenny Hurtado bought his first camera after graduating high school in his native Orange County, California in 2001. He focused on surfing, and quickly rose up the ranks, working closely...

We customize our lives and the environment that surrounds us every day — from things as big as shaping our own boards to the smallest ones, like adding that little...

Henry Diltz was the photographer; Gary Burden was the art director. Their collaboration brought us some of the greatest album covers of all time. Henry is now 81 and lives...

Awash in vibrant photos and interesting, unexpected profiles and essays, She Surf is a celebration of women’s surfing. Written and edited by pro surfer Lauren L. Hill, the majority of...

“There are people who travel around the world, and there are people who sit in their own backyards. Some of those people who sit in their own backyards visit more...

Palo Alto has long been a hotbed for innovation. Here is the headquarters of Google, Facebook, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Tesla, Skype, PayPal, the list goes on. And here is where, in...

New Yorker Brendon Babenzien’s had an interesting ride. A lifelong surfer and skater, he starting working at the seminal Rick’s Surf Shop in his teens. That led him to a...