Surfing World | Issue 421

On the back of our 60th anniversary issue which sold out the print run, SW421 features the best stories and images from the peak Australian winter surf season. We’ve got classic sessions from Bells Beach and Tasmania’s Shipstern Bluff. We profile Stradbroke’s Ethan Ewing, log stylist Josie Prendergeast, world record surfer Blake Johnston and tour legend Jeremy Byles.We also travel to Indonesia, Namibia, Alaska, and we join iconic photographer Ted Grambeau on his open-ticket odyssey around the world from Antarctica to Hawaii.

Surfing World is being published independently by Jon Frank and Sean Doherty, two surf mag lifers. They have form. Frank is the Godfather of high-art surf photography. Seano is on a million-word surf story bender. They both hold a deep respect for surfing. Surfing World is a passion project for them. They’ve inherited a sense of duty. A surfing elder summed it up to them this way: “Make something beautiful that really says something.”