128 pages Photographs by Ben Thouard 30 x 24 cm Language: French & English Hardcover Printed on Arctic Paper; cover printed on fine art paper with hot-foil stamping Publisher: Mons 2021
The second book by Ben Thouard, an ocean photographer born in Toulon and based in Tahiti since 2008. It gathers seventy-five photographs, unpublished at the time of release, taken inside Teahupo'o, one of the most powerful waves in the world: the wave seen from within and from below, an underwater view that surf photography had not shown.
Thouard won Red Bull Illume in 2019 and, in 2024, worked as a water photographer for AFP at the Olympic surfing event in Teahupo'o. The book is the result of four years' work, self-financed and printed in France.
Reference: see also Ben Thouard – Aqua Obscura, which closes the series, and Johanne Defay – À contre-courant, Olympic bronze medallist at Teahupo'o in 2024.
