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More than 1300 kilometers coastline and dozens of waves: Photographer Chris Burkhard and surf pro Erik Sonderquist traveled along the California Pacific coastline in an old Volkswagen bus. The result is the book The California Surf Project – a surf-road-trip-diary and an impressive portrait of California’s coastline.

California adjoins Oregon in the north and Mexico in the south. In between Highway 1 runs along much of the Pacific coast. Along that legendary route surf pro Eric Soderquist surfed California’s waves – always on his side, photographer Chris Burkhard. In an old Volkswagen T2 bus they traveled the highway and brought home a stunning photographic travelogue.

Their book The California Surf Project contains more than 200 photographs. They show surfer on the waves, fog over wooded coastline, trucks on the highway, details in the spindrift. The photographs’ atmosphere is consistent and harmonious. They never get boring because of the composition of surf-, road trip-, landscape- and detail shoots. As a little foretaste Flare shows 22 photographs (just click on the picture above),

Aside to the photographs The California Surf Project contains little texts about each station of the trip. Not a must-have, but fascinating nevertheless. In addition the book contains a DVD that is, compared to the book, disappointing. It shows that the focus of the trip was surfing and photography, not filming. The California Surf Project is available in Germany at Amazon for approximately 24 Euros and in the US for 35 $.

Links:
Hompage of The California Surf Project
Review of The California Surf Project on surfline.com