This is a new little series of articles for UK Pro Surf News, but it’s something that is fundamentally important to surfing: Photography. This is an aquatic art form in itself and provides feedback for the competitive surfer, so that said surfer can understand better how to improve. It also provides a form of artistic communication to the non-surfing community, and documents our best moments…

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Looking as badass as possible.
Which is also vital to improving surfing technique of course…
 

​We’ll start in Canada. Canada is a stunning land. Imagine Scotland on the ‘roids after a 3 hour session on the squat rack. There are big freezing lakes, the towering ‘Middle Earth’ looking snow capped mountains, plus both the Pacific and the Atlantic on its flanks. It is a stunning country, and apparently it produces stunning world class surf too.
   We have a lot in common with Canada as surfers; we embrace the freezing weather for the best long period ground swells and lush off-shores. So it makes sense to begin this article with one of the finest surf photographers and movie makers to grace to realms of this great land.
  If we hone in on British Columbia; more specifically, Vancouver Island, you may be able to see a bobbing black figure floating on the outside of some gnarly-looking slab with a housed-up camera in hand. This man is Mr Dewolfe.
   Adam shoots both stills and video, and whilst his images are where we hold our interest for now, his videos deserve some serious merit. As part of the surf media group GotSurf.ca, he has released videos that have racked up a lot of views and resulted in interesting colab’s with Sanuk Footwear. His entry into the Canadian Surf Film Festival; Rainy Day at Drop Box, is a fantastic short film. Among this he has shot numerous videos for GotSurf.ca He has recently completed Raph Bruhwiler’s Innersection piece.
   His images are completely creative. Adam utilises some incredibly interesting compositions from which to make the most of Canada’s changing and interesting weather. He specialises in in-water photos. Quite often he’ll take the camera within millimetres of the surfer, in very heavy surf. His brand of choice is Canon, encased nice and snug in an SPL housing. Adam employs a range of techniques from which to create his art; using flash, slow shutter speeds and shallow Depths of Field,   a range of lenses are equally seen to as well; from mid length telephotos to fisheyes.

The men Behind the glass:

​Adam Dewolfe.

Adam is chasing down the pinnacle of his craft, and we here at UK Pro Surf News are looking forward to following him on his journey behind the glass.







Words by Dom Read

All photos by Adam Dewolfe