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Abellira, Reno

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academia and surfing

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advertising and surfing

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Bermuda

Globe-trotting photographer, raised in Hawaii, best known for exploring some of the world's most remote, and often dangerous, coastlines for surf. "His images from the Seven Seas," outdoor writer Matt Button wrote in 2016, "bring exploration and adventure into our lives, and outsmart all that dehumanizing big punt/big decal surf porn."

Callahan was born (1961) in South Carolina, the son of an Air Force pilot father and elementary school teacher mother. The family spent four years in Okinawa, Japan, then moved to Hawaii in 1969, where Callahan began surfing at Waikiki.

After getting a BA in Design from UCLA in 1986, Callahan began an informal mentorship with Surfing magazine photo editor Larry "Flame" Moore. For the next few years, while contributing to both Surfing and SURFER, as well as a dozen or so other genre magazines, Callahan followed the same routine as other surf photographers, shooting pro tour contests and spending his winter months on the North Shore. His interest in travel, he later said, was partly a career move—wanting to photograph setting and breaks that weren't already being covered by the surf press—and partly the result of reading Paul Theroux and V.S. Naipaul.

Callahan is probably best known for a 1992 trip he made to The Philippines with pro surfers Taylor Knox and Evan Slater. Cloud Nine, the flawless right-breaking wave they rode for days on end, made the cover of SURFER, and became a beacon for surf travelers. The venture was later named by SURFER as one of the "10 Greatest Surf Trips of All Time."

Skilled at all facets of photography, Callahan is at his best working from a distance—surfers and wave-riding often play just a small part of a bigger panorama featuring (depending on the regions) jungles, sand dunes, lagoons, hillsides.

In 2010, Callahan became a founding parter in SurfEXPLORE, a surf media group dedicated to the finding and documenting exotic new surf breaks, while also being sensitive to local economic, cultural, and environmental issues. Between 2000 and 2016, Callahan visited just over 60 countries, including Laos, Burma, Angola, Algeria, China, Gabon, Haiti, India, South Korea, Mauritania

Madagascar, Oman, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, and Western Sahara,

Callahan has lived in Singapore since 2001.

Callahan, John Seaton

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