Hossegor, June 2011

About 10 yrs ago, in the early summer of 2011, I got sent on my first overseas magazine assignment. The client was the fantastic Huck Magazine, with my brief to document the ‘Swatch Girls Pro’ surf event on the Atlantic coast of France.

Hossegor is a fabled location for surfers, and with women’s surfing increasing in popularity, there was a lot of hype around the event. Before the event I had the chance to explore the town and its surrounding beaches, experiencing the atmosphere of a landscape softened by ocean spray. I was drawn to this seafront home and it’s huge wave mural by artist Dominique Antony, a testimony to the forces of nature that have drawn surfers to the area for decades.

This photograph is printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. This white cotton artist’s paper, with its characteristic, wonderfully soft feel, boasts a lightly defined felt structure, lending each artwork a three-dimensional appearance and impressive pictorial depth. Combined with a matt premium inkjet coating, this paper produces outstanding prints that feature brilliant colours, deep blacks, striking contrasts and perfect reproduction of detail. The paper is acid and lignin free, meeting the most exacting requirements for age resistance.

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