“I’m a broken surfer,” says photographer Ben Schutzer. “I can’t paddle into the waves anymore. I now surf through my camera.”
Schutzer, now 47, started surfing long before he began shooting photos. At age six you could find him riding the long, rolling waves of Malibu’s First Point at Surfrider Beach. He didn’t chase the giant waves at famed surf spot Mavericks until the 1990s when he said, “It was a bunch of yahoos out there trying to figure out the wave.”
There were no … More