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As a fledgling street photographer strolling up and down the streets of cities....
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Duncan Macfarlane
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I quickly became aware of time and its erosive power. My early photographs focused almost exclusively on the signs of an older culture that was holding on for dear life. I’d photograph seltzer bottles in old wooden crates piled high in a truck, or the dusty windows of Jewish bread shops, or old men building February fires on the beaches of Coney Island. My interest was more than documentary, for it seemed to me that what was about to vanish was important and irreplaceable, and frankly, I wanted my photo-graphs to offer, in some manner, the power of resuscitation. I want them to help us to remember; and even more importantly, they help us to decide what is worth remem-bering. - John Rosenthal - Exhibition lecture, National Humanities Center
australian. 2011 follow the light winner. SurfInG Magazine senior photographer. uniter of old and new. Memory catcher.
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EDITORIAL
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WORDs AnD phOTOs by DunCAn MACFARLAnE
we did a little trip to Coff’s harbor, near where i live, and we got
this little beachie pretty much to ourselves. seven miles of beach
and just us.
asher Pacey.
an afternoon storm in arugam bay, sri lanka.
Dane Peterson.
Dane Peterson.
a little cliff we were jumping
off. i swear it’s fricking higher
when you’re up there, too.
like, f--king scary. Creed
McTaggart and soli bailey.
in France.
another shot of wade from France. it’s just a perfect left and right. i had this shot on my desktop for a while and
would just mind surf the shit out of which way i wanted to go. This was in november of last year.
Europe, shortly after andy passed away. This was during the
hossegor paddle-out and that little girl is carrying flowers
down to the beach for him.
we went to lagundri bay with this big, 15-feet at 20-seconds swell but we got there and it was just
the wrong direction. Four feet and pretty shitty. so we took a boat to this spot and these guys — laurie
Towner and Dylan longbottom — were like, “This is kinda scary,” and they’re f--king gnarly, heavy
surfers, too. The thing looked like Chopes if it were a right.
laurie Towner at home in angourie on a nice little wave.
These were shot with a hasselblad. i’m a big fan of cricket back home in australia; it’s a
pretty major sport there. and i guess americans don’t really know much about it, but in sri
lanka that’s their number one sport. so i just wanted to capture that when i went there and
i was really stoked that i got the whole cricket team and all these guys playing.
Potuvil, sri lanka.
Cow crossing. Potuvil, sri lanka.
Cock fight in Canggu, bali. There was this cock fighting ring just behind the warungs in Canngu, and i witnessed this go
down. it was crazy, the locals had folders filled with different blades to tie to the birds’ feet for different fights. i spoke to
a photographer the other day who lives there and he said this was the last fight they ever held there.
That’s a guy separating some grains of rice, and you can’t see it, but
there’s a massive storm coming. They just wait for these storms to pass
through to use the wind to sort the rice. The shitty rice blows away and
the good rice just drops to the ground and then they collect it. The photo
below is just a little tiny line-up that we didn’t get much surf at.
From the Creative Destruction episodes — chapter 3, i think. we went and hung out with Dean brady, laurie Towner and
wade in angourie and yamba. Perfect south ground swell and perfect north ground swell and just had a crazy week of good
surf and good times.
Dane ward.
surf check from the car. East Coast, australia.
A COOL
pORTRAIT OF
DAnE REynOLDs.
i was on a family reunion in wagawaga, which for those of you
who don’t know australia, is smack bang in the desert in the
middle of nowhere. a bit of a shithole. it’s like six hours from
the coast and pretty much just dead grass.
on our way out of sri lanka we were just waiting at our
hotel to go to the plane and there were these kids — maybe
twenty adolescents — playing soccer on the beach. so i just
ran up and hung out for a bit.
billy Kean. sawtell, australia.
i made a little water studio
at home and collected some
jellyfish, specifically blue
bottles. i got stung pretty
f--king badly. The things that
sting you are little cells that
get fired off from the tenta-
cles and make the water
toxic. The water dripped
everywhere, and i got stung
on my hands, arms and face.
but the photos came out
good so i was stoked.
one of my good buddies, Dane Peterson, a brilliant photographer
and longboarder.
bryce young, son of nat young, skating at night.
wade goodall and ben sanchis walking to one of the days of the year at hossegor.
lineup at an empty sri lankan point.
i love bodysurfing. you don’t need to worry about hassling
with the crowds. you don’t need to worry about your perfor-
mance out there. and no matter what the conditions you
always have fun and come in stoked. Dane Peterson.
harrison roach on a deserted point in QlD. it was just him and Dane
Peterson trading waves out there all morning.
sri lanka.
bali.
That was a pretty fun day.
zanzibar, Tanzania.
hossegor, France.
France.
home.
arugam bay, sri lanka. The village with all the boats. The dogs are gnarly there and three
people got sent home from the contest because they were bitten.
one of my buddies from California, jared Mell.
Pre-surf cigarette.
i took my girlfriend on a two-week holiday trip around new zealand. Milford sound, south island.
brisbane, australia
in hossegor, France. My first cover on surfEuro Magazine.
a creepy back-alley bar in new zealand where the bikes are mounted on the walls.
Mundaka, spain.
in Canggu at a little left on a small day.
it was a holiday so heaps of people
were down on the beach and these two
fat old german ladies went swimming
and got stuck in a rip and one of them
happened to be diabetic and began to
pass out. a couple of the surfers dragged
them both in and the diabetic lady was
laying out on the beach. all the people
on the beach were crowded around her
thinking she was dead or something, all
the while ozzie is just punting big airs on
this little left. and that guy there isn’t
claiming the air – he is just waving for
a towel or something to help the lady.
but it looks like he’s claiming, which is
pretty funny.
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