Photographer Scraps Snapping Surfers for Just Water and Waves—and the Results Are Pure ‘Magic’

Photographer Scraps Snapping Surfers for Just Water and Waves—and the Results Are Pure ‘Magic’
Courtesy of Matt Burgess
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Like many artists, photographer Matt Burgess stumbled on his niche by accident.

His love for photography took him to the ocean, where he first started snapping surfers off Australia’s beaches. What he soon found while training his lenses on humans riding the waves was that the waves themselves, finishing their journey ashore, were more interesting than their riders.

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