Après Surf Interviews

Andrea Tese is a queen among the kelp. 👑🌿 The 40-year-old photographic artist has been swimming in the kelp forests off the California coast, hoping to capture the swaying ocean greenery juuusst right for her latest underwater series.

Alexa Liccardi. Pop into any Patagonia in the city and you’ll hear her name. As the brand’s NYC marketing coordinator, the 25-year-old photographer is a beautiful force in the city girl surf scene.

There are no shadows in Taylor Slater’s life—not one chilling above her because her father is pro surfer Kelly Slater, nor any spotted in her ocean-inspired resin and acrylic wood paintings. Instead, they’re strikingly shiny and bright, which is exactly how we’d describe Taylor, too.

Carla Zamora, 42, is a petite powerhouse, packing a ton of personality and world-class longboarding talent into an impressively tiny frame.