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Lucia Griggi united kingdom
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Underwater Surfer.
Being on the road shooting surfing led me to a fork, where I began doing work for the mainstream media. Magazines such as National Geographic and companies like Jeep look to me for images and moments which have the look and feel of the adventure lifestyle. I work on commercial advertising assignments with a team of people all dedicated to providing clients with the highest quality images. For the past decade I have been traveling from England to California to Hawaii and around the world to document the adventure lifestyle - and inspire others to find their own path.
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entry description
Taken at Cloud Break at an outer reef in Fiji, a surfer duck dives his board to clear the rolling waves of the raw ocean. While other surfers around are taking rides on the waves which are hurtling towards them. This was one of the best swells in surfing history in 2012 and has been internationally recognized.about the photographer
My love of photography was inspired by my passion for travel and finding waves around the world. I learned to surf in England and the search for perfect waves took me to corners of the earth I would have never found if I wasn't surf crazed. I lived to have two feet in the sand and my toes in the water, and I was always on a beach or swimming in the ocean somewhere. I spent many seasons on the North Shore of Oahu documenting surfing by land and sea - either shooting from the beach with a big telephoto lens, or swimming out at Pipeline to tell the stories of athletes like Kelly Slater, Lisa Anderson and all the other great North Shore specialists. Book assignments took me to California, where I took portraits of skate legends Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Tony Hawk and dozens of others. These book projects took me as far north as Seattle and as far south as the tip of Baja, and I am now based part of the year in California - surrounded by the surfing and skateboarding lifestyle.Being on the road shooting surfing led me to a fork, where I began doing work for the mainstream media. Magazines such as National Geographic and companies like Jeep look to me for images and moments which have the look and feel of the adventure lifestyle. I work on commercial advertising assignments with a team of people all dedicated to providing clients with the highest quality images. For the past decade I have been traveling from England to California to Hawaii and around the world to document the adventure lifestyle - and inspire others to find their own path.
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