Writing on the New Yorker‘s website, Jessie Wender notes the formation, last year, of Massif Management, a photo agency that represents a group of surfers who are also photographers.:
I’m not sure that surf photography has a discernible style, as opposed to an established iconography, but the best of this work carries with it a spirit of generosity and humor and openness and joy. If surfing is a sport, I can think of no other that has fetishized its own image as relentlessly.
The rest is available here.