Winter on the North Shore officially kicked off earlier this month when we saw Koa Rothman and John John Florence surfing Rocky Point during the first swell of the season. But the North Shore is truly emerging from its summer slumber thanks to the huge swell hitting this week with .
Interview: Nathan Oldfield on “Sojourn”
In 2014, Australian filmmaker Nathan Oldfield turned a last-minute Tracks assignment into a free-form visual masterpiece in the Mentawai Islands.
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Released just six years ago,
Sojourn is hardly vintage, but it does transport us back to a simpler time in surf culture of influential surf magazines and a booming industry; five-star boat trips and hard-copy surf movies. But for Nathan Oldfield a uniquely gifted photographer/filmmaker from the North Coast of New South Wales whose work had earned him numerous accolades, including
Surfing World Magazine’s “Fifty Most Intriguing People In Surfing” the quintessential Indo dream voyage had somehow evaded him. Fortunately, Nathan knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy at