Shaun Smith is a playful water photographer who sees the bright side in the smallest things in life.
Like many surfers before him, Shaun started bringing a camera in the water to shoot his friends and document his own rides, as a way to relive the fun.
Growing up on the coast of California, Shaun started swimming age two, took to bodyboarding at seven and hasn’t stopped since.
"I love the feeling of getting barreled. There's really nothing else like it".
Starting at the Wedge and staring down barrels, Shaun found his style in the mini-waves movement, capturing in ripples the universal beauty of undulating water.
Shaun Smith is obsessed with listening to the call of the ocean, using the lens to record the mood of the sea, the dance of the waves in the wind, like the lonely but not lonely soul of the sea.