Water Cathedrals
SeriesInside breaking waves and monumental barrels.
KAI NOA EDGAR
Ocean Photographer
North Shore, Hawaiʻi
Inside the Pacific
THE OCEAN IS NOT THE BACKGROUND.
Kai Noa Edgar studies the Pacific from within the water. The work follows the fleeting structures made by moving ocean — the hollow of a wave, light bending through a collapsing lip, pressure, turbulence and the scale of open water.
Each frame is a record of a form that existed for less than a second.
Selected Series
Archive
Pacific Weight
SeriesLarge-scale studies of the physical mass and power of the Pacific.
North Shore Winters
SeriesPowerful winter swells and surf conditions on Oʻahu.
Surface / Below
SeriesThe boundary between the world above and beneath the ocean surface.
The Break
SeriesThe instant when structure becomes collapse.