Clark Little Photography Announces a Self Published Photography Book and a Summer Slideshow Tour

In the beginning Clark ‘Turbo’ Little wasn’t trying to cause a big sensation when he started swimming around in killer shore breaks with a waterproof camera. ‘My wife said to go out and get a shot for our house,’ Clark said to Surfer Magazine in February of 2007. ‘….was [she] looking for a unique image to decorate our wall…or was she just too tight to go to Pictures Plus?’

To ensure domestic tranquility, Clark began swimming around at infamous danger zones on the North Shore of Oahu: Waimea shorebreak and Ke Iki Road. Ducking through the back of sand-sucking monster waves as they unloaded on sand, Clark began his quest to capture “the perfect wave,” and found the peace of mind and exhilaration he experienced while in the ocean was coming through in the images he was capturing.

For years he would voluntarily put his life on the line to experience these brief moments of bliss.  Luckily for the rest of us, someone put a camera in his hand, and now those brief moments of bliss can be stared at.
– Jack Johnson, from the foreword to Clark Little’s book, May 2009

AWESOME JOB
Just over two years later Clark has dedicated himself full time to capturing unique images to decorate the walls of the world: photographing Hawaiian waves from the inside out. He has captured the color, drama, light, shadows and power of Hawaiian surf in ways that have captured the imagination of people around the world: In the month of May, Clark’s website at  clarklittlephotography.com generated 125,000 visits from 177 countries.

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HIS FRIENDS
Among those website hits, there was a growing number of inquiries regarding the availability of a compilation of Clark‘s beautiful photographs in a book format.   With help from former Surfer Magazine staffers Ben Marcus and Joni Casimiro, and encouragement from family and friends, Clark is choosing the right combination of materials to package 200 pages of his best photographs in a Limited Edition book that will sell for an even $100.

Compiled under the working title, The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little, the book got off to a nice start when World Champion Kelly Slater and North Shore surfer/musician Jack Johnson quickly and generously wrote forewords praising Clark for capturing those “brief moments of bliss” that all surfers experience in a blaze of adrenalin.

THE TURBO TOUR: SAO PAULO TO SEAL BEACH
Summer is slow on the North Shore, so Clark is using the break to assemble a slideshow of his images and take them on the road. Surfers and ocean lovers, as well as fine arts aficionados will be treated to breathtaking bursts of Hawaiian surf on the big screen, narrated by Clark Little.  After the formal presentation there will be an opportunity to meet and talk story with the artist.

Alma Surf’s Romeu Andreatta and Hurley are flying Clark and his wife Sandy down to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the festivAlma from July 2 – 4. After that Clark is going to swim around in the shorebreaks of Rio de Janeiro to see what kind of bliss that part of the world has to offer.

After honing his slideshow presentation in Brazil, he will bring it on home, to Michiko Jewelry Design on Main Street in Seal Beach on August first and Sasha on South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach on August 6th. Clark will also participate in the Malibu Art Festival on July 25th and 26th and he is actively seeking other galleries or surf shops or art schools who might be interested in his presentation.

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-ORDERS AND RESERVATIONS: Reserve your copy on a pre-order list for The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little at clarklittlephotography.com.  TO BOOK THE CLARK LITTLE SLIDESHOW info@clarklittlephotography.com

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Surf fans, get ready, CLOUD 9 the long awaited documentary is screening Sun 14th at the San Sebastian Film Festibal at 17h00.  Daz, the man behind the Euroforce Series has been working flat out, and the project is nearing completion!  He has caught moments of pure gold through his lens and CLOUD 9 is where it all comes together.  Written by Lauren Davies, narrated by Mark Richards and a soundtrack featuring the Quiksilver musical grom Ben Howard.  The film, includes never before seen footage and interviews with Kelly, Tony Hawk and the Worlds best surfers.  CLOUD 9 gives us an insight into the man behind the 9 World Titles.  I reckon you’ll start seeing images shortly.  I’m so excited by the clips I’ve seen I just gotta tell someone!

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Clearly, Taylor Steele doesn’t like sitting still. The Bali-based surf filmmaker’s travel opus Sipping Jetstreams has been out for a couple years, and in between super high-performance shred-flicks, he’s been going loony on google earth, plotting new, weirder destinations for his follow up, which is called Castles in the Sky.

Tuesday night saw a special sneak preview of Castles at the Montalbán Theater in Hollywood, where dozens of semi-famous to famous surfers, industry types and various other Beautiful People turn up to check out Steele’s newest work, as well as another chance to see Sipping on the big screen.

In typical Steele fashion, he’d just got off a plane from India with a head wound from a car accident — a less-than-glamorous byproduct of spending half the year crisscrossing the globe. “I do those other projects to keep this going,” he said of his shredflicks. “This is my passion.”

“We could go on for days about the meanings of the titles and everything,” explains Steele’s partner photog Dustin Humphries. “But really, it’s all about the wonder of travel and getting outside your comfort zone.”

The first peek at Castles was as impactful and lush as Sipping: Dane Reynolds + friends pulling into snow-capped slabs in Iceland, Rob Machado going local in Peru and more, all edited with Humphries and Steele’s trademark style.

Groovy as it all is, Steele’s quick to point out that we’re looking at a work in progress. “This is an ultrasound, not a baby picture,” he laughed onstage.

If that’s an ultrasound, we’re stoked to see the grown up.

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