After moving to Venice Beach during the pandemic, photographer Matthew Brookes used a camera to discover his new neighborhood.
crew lives in pursuit of cresting coastal waters, and retreats to tricked-out personalized vehicles that enable itinerance. One surfer said of his van:I view it more as an extension of me in a way. It’s like my shoes, or like ‘phone, wallet, keys.’” Exploring the visceral energy and low-key camaraderie of the scene, Brookes prizes glimpses of calm solitude over relentless adrenaline rush.
It's funny that you ask this question because it's only recently, in looking back on my project of surf nomads, that I realized I'm a nomad myself. I was born in Sheffield, in England, and my family immigrated to South Africa when I was 9 years old. We moved around a lot when I was young. Most of the time I was a pure spectator, but the surfers did take me on day trips up and down the California coast. There was a group of skaters who parked in my street in Venice one day: they lived in a school bus. These kids told me how they crossed America in their converted grungy mobile home full of bunk beds, a kitchen… the works.
Were the subjects comfortable in front of the camera? How did you coax them into their most “natural” disposition? There seems to be this single-minded devotion to surfing: Would you describe it as an obsession? A religion? A lifestyle? I don’t think you can define the way they dress as masculine or feminine: this is just their own personal style, what they feel like putting on for the day. From an outsider’s point of view, you could say that they were comfortable exploring their feminine side by painting their nails in all different colors or wearing a scarf over their head with a wetsuit, but I think they just enjoy being eccentric. Their version of what is cool does not seem to be gender-related.
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