San Francisco’s Ocean Beach has a heavy reputation. Raw ocean energy, cold water, shifting peaks and a sometimes never-ending paddle out are at the top of the list, not an exhaustive list. It’s an intimidating place to surf, let alone to swim out to shoot photos. Marin County resident Jack Bober crosses the Golden Gate Bridge regularly to shoot at Ocean Beach, swimming with his camera when the conditions allow and finding some captivating angles and compositions when forced to stay dry and take photographs from the shore. With the recent run of swells spinning across the North Pacific through the first few weeks of 2021, Jack has been busy and racked up quite the bill in bridge tolls. Busy, because as well as shooting back-to-back swells, this seventeen year old is also still in high school – a fact that makes the gallery of images that follows even more impressive.
Surf Simply caught up with Jack at the end of January to get the inside story behind some of the incredible photographs he’s captured over the last year or so.
