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Kelly Slater and the Last Perfect Wave
At fifty-two, the greatest surfer alive returns to Pipeline for one final season. A portrait of obsession, legacy, and the ocean that made him.
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Where the Sand Stays Warm: A Year in João Pessoa
A photographer's notebook from Brazil's northeast, where the surf is loud, the breakfast is louder, and time bends in the heat.
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Forty Years on the North Shore
Photographer Aki Tanaka has documented the same five hundred meters of reef since 1985. We sat with him through a winter swell and the contact sheets it produced.
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