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Raimana’s a legend. The guy’s throwing double peace signs in the tube and makes it look fun and easy. Image: Kenworthy
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Julian Wilson, Mentawaiis. We were taking advantage of the crystal clear waters during a flat day on the ‘Scratching the Surface’ shoot. Image: Kenworthy
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Christian Wach has been one of the guys endorsing the ‘ride everything movement’ for quite some time now—and he rides them all with style. Image: Kenworthy
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Carissa Moore sneaking under one in Micronesia. Image: Kenworthy
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Kai Barger has taken on the tradition of being a true Hawaiin tube rider. Here he is putting his skills to work at Green Bush. Image: Kenworthy
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Alex Smith just about landed on my head on this one, but it made for a pretty unique photo. Image: Kenworthy
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This guy was flying down the channel with his garbage bag sail. Sometime you just have to use what’s at hand. Image: Kenworthy
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Kolohe, Lances Right, with style. Image: Kenworthy
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Its not all palm trees and crystal clear water. Death and decay on a Mexican beach. Image: Kenworthy
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Albee Layer chop hop ollie at Jaws. Image: Kenworthy
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Sometimes you don’t have to travel half way around the world to get a great photo. A cold winter morning in my own back yard. Image: Kenworthy
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Julian Wilson from the Nike ‘Just Do It’ Campaign. Being a part of this was a really great experience: the total opposite of what we normally do. Image: Kenworthy
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Bruce Irons, in the dark, flare attached, no Photoshop needed. Image: Kenworthy
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Sometimes it is palm trees, crystal clear water, and sunsets. Macaronies. Image: Kenworthy
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The calm after the storm. Indonesia. Image: Kenworthy
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Hand made all wooden Spirare Surfboard being taken for a spin over a shallow reef pass. Image: Kenworthy
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Cole Surfboards, a San Clemente staple. Image: Kenworthy
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Wandering Hong Kong while en route to perfect waves. Image: Kenworthy
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It took two canoe rides and a thirty minute mud bogged hike to make it to these indigenous Mentawaii people who have lived there nearly unchanged for centuries (minus the dudes rolex). Image: Kenworthy
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Bruce after sunset at the Bonzai Pipeline. Image: Kenworthy
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Who needs coffee when you’re waking up to this. Image: Kenworthy
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Alejo, Laura, Monyca, and Bruce. Good humans. Image: Kenworthy
Jason Kenworthy has been a dominant force in the surf world for years. As a founding member of Snapping Turtle Productions, Jason’s surf movies, including Psycho Ward and Raw Irons, were the visual anthems for Southern California’s “surf punk” movement. However, after sensing a slip in the video world, Jason soon set his sights on photography and hasn’t looked back.
Kenworthy’s career shooting photos has garnished over fifty magazine covers worldwide, including over fifteen Surfer Magazine covers during his eleven year tenure as a Senior Staff Photographer. Jason was also the visual eye behind
Nike’s “Just Do It” print campaign and the Bruce Irons “Flare shot” (one of surfing’s most talked about photos). He also went on to direct Nike’s ground breaking girls surf film “Leave A Message”.
These days Jason plays a multitude of rolls: photographer, filmmaker, surfer, but most importantly husband and father. While it is still surf action that tends to lead Jason around the world, he is constantly keeping an open eye to the places he travels: shooting the people and places he passes through is often more rewarding than photographing the waves at the final destination.
Check out more of Jason Kenworthy’s work at jrkenworthy.com.
