I was born and raised in San Diego, California where I grew up surfing the beaches of La Jolla. Longing for worldly experience and more exotic surf destinations, I hit the road with not much more than a few surfboards and a camera. An abundance of calculated risks, months at a time slept on foreign floors, and a handful of near death experiences, coupled with an absurd amount of persistence and countless hours behind the lens earned me a position as photographer for Rusty Surfboards.
I graduated from San Diego State University a few years back and now, in addition to my photography, I do research on sustainable surf tourism for the San Diego State University Research Foundation to study the interaction between surfers and wave rich communities.
As a traveling photographer, I have had the opportunity to visit some amazing and unique destinations and score epic waves… However, even though I was living my dream of traveling, surfing, and shooting I quickly realized something was missing. To get to these perfect waves and surreal destinations we were stepping over poverty, hunger, disease, poor sanitation, and broken economies- and, for me, it soured the experience.
It became a personal goal to combine my surf photography trips with surf philanthropy and about a year ago I started the SurfResource.org to help surfers, travelers, companies and like-minded individuals give back where we go for waves.
To learn more about Sean’s latest project and help make an impact check out surfresource.org.
Concerts, sports competitions, cultural fairs and the like are just some of the San Diego events that you wouldn’t want to miss when visiting the city.
