Chris Burkard travels from his Central California to places like Alaska, Norway and Iceland to take these blindingly beautiful photos that aim to “portrays the humble placement of the human in contrast to nature.”
"Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit," says surf photographer Chris Burkard, as he explains his obsession with the coldest, choppiest, most isolated beaches on earth. With jawdropping photos and stories of places few humans have ever seen - much less surfed - he draws us into his "personal crusade against the mundane."