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About Me

Ben is a self-taught photographer and on staff for Surfer Magazine. His watermen skills combined with a creative vision lead to some of the most progressive images and marketing campaigns in the action sports industry today.

View his portfolio at bendecamp.com
To purchase prints go to Waveriders Gallery
For stock photography and image licensing visit A-Frame Photo
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My Interests

Existentialism, aesthetics, visual culture, bodysurfing, camping, exploring, swimming, nautical charts, duckfeet, machetes, occasional fishing, Google Earth, chess, flannel shirts, Polaroids, large format, super 8, Kodachrome, stencils, rubber stamps, gingerale, New England clam chowder, French baguettes, and Extra spearmint gum.

I'd like to meet:

Barrels and brunettes.

Music:

Anything on Jordan Stallard's ipod.

Movies:

A Blank Canvas, NF4 Guilty by Association, Retina Rehab, Liquid Time, I Heart Huckabees

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Television:

Lost, Jeopardy, Discovery Channel

Books:

Cosmic Banditos, The Giver, An Island to Oneself, The Book of Disquiet

Heroes:

Craig Peterson, Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kenji Nakayama, Phil Roberts, M.C. Escher, Ralph Steadman

My Blog

Surf Photography in 2009: Whats Hot & Not

Comments by Peter Taras, photo editor Surfing Magazinehttp://www.surfingthemag.com/surfing-photo...r-taras -100908/ After reading this article, I've already heard of a few guys selling off their 6...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:47:00 PST

Red Bull

"This summer Jamie Sterling bought a beat-up old van, christened it the Magnum Mobile Wave Chaser, and took off to Mexico for a few months. Thanks to the photographic skills of Surfer Magazine photogr...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:29:00 PST

Groundhog Day

Well Groundhog Day has officially come to an end. Nobody dared to mess with my routine. Nearly two months consisting of: Climb a sketchy ladder on the roof in the dark, drink ½ gallon of water, surf, ...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:28:00 PST

Seeing Double

Pictured is Reef team rider John Maher. I love seeing the multiple perspectives. Looking into the barrel it's a brilliant blue, but when the sun is behind the curtain it creates yellow and orange hues...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:28:00 PST

Who is El Gato?

I didn't know who El Gato was, where El Gato was from, or how El Gato managed to date one of the most beautiful girls staying in Puerto Escondido. His name was murmured through the lineup after the wa...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:51:00 PST

Sunburned and Satisfied

My feet are covered in fin blisters, the fridge is empty, and my bed is full of sand. But these are good things because now the hard drive is full of golden-lit photos from Puerto. The emails are str...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:53:00 PST

Tornadoes and/or Waterspouts

I was talking to a top Australian photographer last winter, and he said his dream was to always come to the states and see a tornado. Well I wasn't even in California and managed to see one. A water s...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:26:00 PST

Are we in Mexico?

All indications point to yes. Intestine soup, giggling Latinas, and amazing waves. The surf had been small at the main beach, so this morning I hired a taxi to take me to a semi-secret spot outside of...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:40:00 PST

Keiki shorebreak in retrospect

Last winter my good friend Ron Mcadams and I paddled out in the shorebreak on the North Shore of Oahu while Jordan Stallard filmed. That morning Pipeline was huge, and very crowded. The san...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:12:00 PST

GoPro Hero Camera testing

Recently I was at the Action Sports Retailers (ASR) trade show in San Diego and came across the company GoPro. I met the president and he introduced me to the product engineer. He just came out with a...
Posted by Ben DeCamp Photography on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:02:00 PST