Aquabumps a stylish celebration of all things water based captures the local beaches of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs Tamarama and Bondi peak summer time. Paying virtue to Australians love of the surf, beach and sunsets — summer time is anticipated by locals and travelers from all over the world. A little moment in time of summer – Aussie style.
Over the summer months Knack Studios worked with BlueStar Revolution to document the Nike Block Series. The Block Series, Nike Surfing’s grassroots competition tour for young athletes aged between 9 & 20. With a unique non-elimination Round Robin format allowing for competitors to surf three times throughout the one-day events, the Block Series just hit one goal : crown the best and most progressive surfers in the SuperGroms, Groms and Junior divisions, encouraging performance and good vibes bringing together aspiring pro surfers for a great surf encounter.
Working with Aquabumps again, this time in collaboration with Peroni we set off to Italy to capture the summer, the beaches and the waves of the Mediterranean… Yep thats right, waves in the med! Aquabumps joined forces with Peroni to produce a series of short films that will take you to a place that we all want to be whilst hiding in our office cubicles – the beach.
Credits:
Camera 1: Rob Norman
Camera 2: Justin Barnwell
Additional Footage: Alessandro Dotti
Editor: Justin Barnwell
Sound Composition & Design: Matt Brown
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Thanks To:
– Alessandro & Pietro Dotti, Luca from Brothers Surf Shop, Sonia Bobbio, Fabrizio from Rimini, all all the beautiful people we met along the way.
Through the months of July & August Juzzy has been shooting the groms of Europe at the Rip Curl Grom Search events in France. Shooting both the Photo’s and the Videos at the event made him flex his multiple talents to pump out a selection of photos and a short video at each stop. Check out the videos and a few portraits of the groms below and more photos from each event on the Rip Curl Grom Search Facebook Page.
Here is a recap of the 2nd french stop of the Rip Curl GromSearch which took place in Anglet (France) from 7th to 9th of July.
Filmed & Edited by Justin Barnwell for www.knackstudios.com.au
Blue sky storm, sun & pretty good waves were in the beach of Vieux Boucau (France) last 29th & 30th of July for the 3rd french stop of the Rip Curl GromSearch presented by Posca !
Filmed & edited by Justin Barnwell – www.knackstudios.com.au
Filmé & edité par Justin Barnwell – www.knackstudios.com.au
Last year along side working at the Rip Curl Pro Portugal, Knack Photographer Justin Barnwell shot two look books for Rip Curl. The first being with the always entertaining Wilko. Wandering the streets of Peniche with a suitcase wardrobe, we found pockets of light in this sleep fishing village. Nice to see the final product from the dudes at Rip Curl.
Stoked to have recently worked for Aquabumps to create two films on their recent New Zealand adventure. Thanks to Eugene from Aquabumps and Landrover for making this possible. Check them out below!
The Aquabumps gang rolled over to New Zealand for a little road trip, in search of surf and good vistas. Here is a little film about the journey and the guy (::uge) that takes all the pictures that you see on Aquabumps.com. Traveling with surf guide, and legend, Maz Quinn to find all the best little places along NZ’s amazing coastline of the North Island.
Come for a drive with us through New Zealand. Maz Quinn, New Zealand’s most famous surfer showed us around some of his favourite spots. Amazing countryside, super fun waves and good times…
In April 2011 Justin & Rob from Knack Studios went to Bali on a Roxy Shoot with Photographers Dane Peterson & Ryan Heywood. Justin working as an Art Director on the shoot and all design elements to be produced from the Campaign & working in a 2 man team with Cinematographer Rob Norman to create the HS2011 Hype Reel. Check out the creative Below:
The short film series gets an insight into sideways standing personalities. We let them speak their mind, follow them round and watch them shred. Its a one day shoot and insight into their life.
We chin wag with this cobba dingo about moving to Bondi from sleepy Coffs Harbour, being a young dad, what makes him tick and general life pondering thoughts. Otis is a unique character and does things his own way.
“I don’t think anyone knows what their purpose is in life, I’m already a happy man. The fact i have a son makes me happy. Every night i go to bed happy. I’m never really grumpy or anything. Whats the point of being grumpy?”
While in Portugal this year Juzzy shot a few portraits of Owen Wright for Rip Curl while out of the water. With a story in issue 87 of Surf Europe, these photos found a new home, printed up and distributed out. Owen was great to work with and was keen for scouting locations of his hotel to get the right shot for his 6 page story in SE.
