Lineup — Malibu, Code Red II

Signature Edition of 30 / 25 / 20 across three sizes + 2 AP
Signed and numbered. Certificate of Authenticity included.

July 2022. Code Red II — the swell that shut down Tahiti, flooded the south shore of Maui, and arrived in California with four days of unbroken surf from sunrise to sunset. I was living in Malibu. I’d spent fifteen years photographing waves and thirty years surfing them, and I had never seen the elements align like this: a south swell of this size, this clean, this consistent, breaking down one of the most iconic point waves on earth. Hundreds of surfers in the lineup. Sets stacking to the horizon. Lines running for hundreds of yards down the point.
This is the frame that holds it. Shot from directly above, you can see the wave for what it actually is from the water geometry, current, the strange order inside the chaos. It’s the image I come back to when I want to remember that moment.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultrasmooth 305gsm. Available in six sizes, edition sizes decreasing with scale. Every print includes an even 3-inch white border for handling, signing, and framing; listed sizes are image dimensions, and the paper is 6 inches wider and taller than the image (for example, a 40x60 in image ships as a 46x66 in sheet). Signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.