Thor Jonsson

I’m completely hooked on the still image. When I see a surf movie I always want to press the pause button. In the ocean everything is in constant motion—myself, the wave, the surfer, the light. Surfing is never static, it is all about movement, even so, we (or at least I) can never remember a whole wave/ride. I remember fragments, instants frozen in time. Here, I believe, lies one of the still photographic image’s real strengths, for it enables me to capture some kind of essence, the kind of essence that gets deeply embedded in our minds at the time of experience, the essence I see in a surf movie when I want to press the pause button.

—photographer Thor Jonsson in a Waverider Gallery interview

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