Surfer riding deep inside the barrel of a green wave, blurred with motion

Solari

Art Direction

2023

Services

  • Art Direction
  • Campaign Direction
  • Motion

Location

  • Hossegor

Art direction for a surf brand that wanted their campaign to feel like a memory, not an advertisement. Long lenses, desaturated greens and blown out highlights throughout.

The imagery runs across their seasonal lookbook, retail signage and a short film that plays on loop in their flagship. Every frame was shot in or around the water.

Hand trailing through a green wave, throwing up spray

7

Days on location

4

Usable days

1

Reference frame

46

Final selects

Two surfboard noses resting on misty green water
Lone figure standing on a cliff edge above a still green sea

Production Notes

The crew spent a week on the coast waiting for the right swell. Three of the seven days were unusable. The final campaign came from the other four.

Everything was colour graded to a single reference frame, a photograph of morning fog over flat water that set the tone before a single shot was taken.

Churning green whitewater seen from inside a breaking wave