A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

Durable, diplomatic surf photographer from north San Diego County, California; best known for his portraits and behind-the-scenes candids. Sherman was born (1963) and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, moved with his family to San Diego at age 10, and began surfing at 12. The following year, as an assignment for an eighth-grade photography class, he used a hand-me-down camera to shoot a local skateboard contest (Sherman himself was a pro skater in his teen years); he was influenced, he later said, by the gritty black-and-white 

 in the late 1980s, then directed a pair of films for the Powell/Peralta skateboard company. In the early 1990s he contributed photos to 

Sherman's candid work is done on the fly, at pro tour contests and at post-contest parties, but his real strength is portraiture: A 1999 Sherman image shows Australian world title contender Taj Burrow squatting in a junkyard dressed as the Road Warrior; a 1997 shot, taken in a French hotel room, has four-time world champion Lisa Andersen standing by an open window wrapped in a sheet and holding a glass of red wine. "They trust me," Sherman responded, when asked how he's able to get the sport's biggest names to follow his artistic lead. "Plus I work very quickly."

Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater has long been a favorite subject of Sherman's; in 2011, just a few weeks after Slater won his 10th world title, 

 published a special 100-page commemerative issue titled "Kelly Slater: Through the Lens of Steve Sherman."

Sherman, Steve

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