Every California surfer fantasizes about it: Start at one end of the state and surf your way to the other. Camp along the way. Make new friends. Take lots of photos. Eat with your fingers in a broken down van.
It’s got California Dream written all over it. And now it’s the subject of a gloriously illustrated book published by San Francisco’s Chronicle Books. It’s called The California Surf Project: 176 pages of color and black-and-white shots, complete with succinct journaling and a 30-minute companion DVD.
A few years back, photographer Chris Burkard scored the inaugural Follow the Light Foundation Grant for surf photography. His winning proposal was to collaborate with surfer-artist Eric Soderquist on a book about that dream trip…Â Details