The sky dominates almost everything.
Heavy black-and-white clouds fill most of this vertical photograph, pressing towards a rough sea and flooded rock platform below. Against that scale, a single surfer is barely more than a mark near the water.
That small figure changes the picture. Without him it could be read simply as a storm landscape; with him, it becomes a photograph about judgement—the moment of standing at the edge and deciding when, or whether, to enter.
The drama comes from scale rather than surfing action.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Surfing Life
Title: Storm Surfer, Werri Beach
Artwork: #5066
Location: Werri Beach, Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Surfer at the edge of rough ocean conditions
Medium: Black-and-white fine art photography
Process: Documentary style
Format: Portrait
Genre: Fine art surf / coastal landscape photography
Themes: Storm, weather, scale, ocean, anticipation, solitude
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
The sky dominates almost everything.
Heavy black-and-white clouds fill most of this vertical photograph, pressing towards a rough sea and flooded rock platform below. Against that scale, a single surfer is barely more than a mark near the water.
That small figure changes the picture. Without him it could be read simply as a storm landscape; with him, it becomes a photograph about judgement—the moment of standing at the edge and deciding when, or whether, to enter.
The drama comes from scale rather than surfing action.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Surfing Life
Title: Storm Surfer, Werri Beach
Artwork: #5066
Location: Werri Beach, Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia
Subject: Surfer at the edge of rough ocean conditions
Medium: Black-and-white fine art photography
Process: Documentary style
Format: Portrait
Genre: Fine art surf / coastal landscape photography
Themes: Storm, weather, scale, ocean, anticipation, solitude
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
