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Hola Olas

December 18, 2015

Hola Olas from Bertrand Beauchet on Vimeo.

In a place where the lefts break day and night, catch Slingshot‘s Delphine Macaire SUPing and kiting the waves of Peru’s northern shore.

 

 

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  • FROM THE EDITOR: 
Choosing a cover is probably one of the most difficult aspects of my job. The limitless considerations can present torturous variables to weigh: athleticism, the dichotomy of surf/freestyle, the contextual implications within the progression of the sport… the list of hard and soft qualities go on forever—and don’t get me started about trying to select an exclusive image in the age of Facebook and Instagram.
The cover is the capstone—it represents the integrity of 120 pages of original content that an editorial team has labored on for weeks if not months. The cover should offer such a complex matrix of visual significance that it deserves to be revisited in between dives into long form content. And since we build our story concepts from the ground up—the cover’s always got some heavy lifting.
We chose a sequence which isn’t by any means the norm, but it’s this iconic backdoor approach that’s been ingrained in my mind throughout the course of this issue’s construction. What’s the backdoor exactly? It’s the sneaky cheat, the come from behind; it’s the longshot into the green room. There’s the barrel, and then there’s the backdoor into the barrel; and this three-panel sequence of @Rob_kidnie is the first vantage I’ve seen that captures this audacity with a kite.
A few years ago I had a conversation with photographer @Jason_Wolcott_photography about how to shoot the backdoor. We both seemed to be thinking the same thing—capturing it would be punishing but the results would be stunning. Shooting inside the barrel is treacherous, maybe lethal, not just because you’re placing yourself in the brutish top to bottom conveyor of the wave, but because you’re crossing paths with a kitesurfer threading a board, replete with lethal sharp kite lines, a club-like control bar, a sheet of resonated fiber-wrapped polystyrene and an elastic leash to boot. The backdoor shot is an awkward choreography of two humans comingled with a ton of sharp implements through a powerful and punishing moving freight train of a tunnel. Thank you Jason Wolcott—but that’s another story.
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