This week, we’re spending the day with Tampa based landscape photographer Erik Cocks. He takes his Nikon and Mamiya medium format cameras to shoot the subjects he enjoys the most—moody landscapes from mountaintops to rivers.
My newest series, “Tribe” is an exhibition of select images illuminating female surf culture. In this series, I document a fluid community, with nature as its sole leader. This series will be featured in an event showcasing the images actually embedded into surfboards using traditional board building techniques. Surfing is the ultimate in vulnerability and courage. Surfing forces one to confront insecurities, about one’s abilities and body, out into the open where everyone can see them, but it also makes one come to terms with their own imperfections. I wanted to create a series that didn’t exploit female surf culture, but respected it as the surfers have respect for the ocean. Surfers know that if you don’t understand the wave,...
The Fine Art Photography Surfing series, Tribe is coming soon!
The fine art photography series celebrates female surfers and their Tribe of like-minded surf community members.