需要去海灘玩一天嗎?和攝影師薩奇·坎寧安一起吧

需要去海灘玩一天嗎?和攝影師薩奇·坎寧安一起吧

On an unusually sunny morning at Ocean Beach on the west side of San Francisco, photographer Sachi Cunningham is putting on her wetsuit, and getting her camera gear ready. A sign in the parking lot warns: "Danger: People have drowned. Enter at your own risk.'

一個(gè)陽光明媚的早晨，在舊金山西部的海灘上，攝影師薩奇·坎寧安穿上潛水服，準(zhǔn)備好攝影器材。停車場(chǎng)的指示牌上寫著:“危險(xiǎn):有人淹死了。”請(qǐng)自行承擔(dān)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。”

Huge waves, deadly rip currents and sharks have not stopped Cunningham, one of the first women shooting big waves in a male-dominated profession. I talked with her before she swam out with João De Macedo, a Portuguese big wave surfer.

巨大的海浪、致命的激流和鯊魚并沒有阻止坎寧安，她是這個(gè)男性占主導(dǎo)地位的行業(yè)中首批拍攝巨浪的女性之一。在她和葡萄牙沖浪者若昂·德·馬塞多一起游泳之前，我和她談過。

"If you don't know what you're doing, it's really big and dangerous surf," Cunningham says.

坎寧安說:“如果你不知道自己在做什么，那真是又大又危險(xiǎn)的沖浪。”

"This is the entrance into the bay ... so the currents are really, really strong, " De Macedo explains.

“這是海灣的入口……所以洋流非常非常強(qiáng)，”德·馬塞多解釋道。

You won't find turtles, coral or fish in Cunningham's images. she only shoots waves and people who ride them.

你不會(huì)在坎寧安的照片中看到海龜、珊瑚或魚，她只拍攝海浪和乘風(fēng)而上的人。

To do this work, you need to be able to read the ocean: its winds, tides, waves — and you need to be strong. Taking photos where the waves break is like being in a washing machine. Your body is flipped around while you try to lift the camera and its waterproof housing — which is like a 25-pound dumbbell.

要做這項(xiàng)工作，你需要能夠讀懂海洋:它的風(fēng)、潮汐、海浪——而且你需要強(qiáng)壯。在海浪拍打的地方拍照就像在洗衣機(jī)里一樣。當(dāng)你試圖舉起相機(jī)和防水外殼時(shí)，你的身體會(huì)翻轉(zhuǎn)過來。防水外殼就像一個(gè)25磅重的啞鈴。

Some photographers train by running with rocks on the bottom of the ocean. Cunningham has been lifting weights since she was 10 and swam competitively for 20 years. She still works with a trainer and has taken a course that trained her to hold her breath for four minutes.

一些攝影師通過在海底的巖石上奔跑來訓(xùn)練?？矊幇矎?0歲開始練習(xí)舉重，20年來一直在游泳比賽。她現(xiàn)在仍在與一位教練一起工作，并參加了一個(gè)訓(xùn)練她屏氣4分鐘的課程。

She's photographed enormous waves, up to 60 feet tall in California and Hawaii. And it was in Hawaii where Cunningham shot the first-ever big wave women's surf competition in 2016.

她拍攝了加州和夏威夷高達(dá)60英尺的巨浪。2016年，坎寧安在夏威夷首次拍攝了大浪女子沖浪比賽。

When Cunningham started photographing surfers two decades ago, there were very few women in the field. "I wanted to take photos of women because I had never seen photos of women," she says.

二十年前，當(dāng)坎寧安開始拍攝沖浪者時(shí)，這個(gè)領(lǐng)域里的女性還很少。“我想拍女性的照片，因?yàn)槲覐奈匆娺^女性的照片，”她說。

Surfer Magazine executive editor Ashtyn Douglas Rosa says Cunningham has changed the narrative in big wave surf photography. Previously, there was a sense that "women didn't belong in these waves or they weren't strong enough, they weren't capable of it or they weren't ready to compete in these waves," Douglas Rosa says. But Cunningham was there documenting it.

沖浪者雜志執(zhí)行編輯阿什廷·道格拉斯·羅莎表示，坎寧安改變了大浪沖浪攝影的敘事方式。在此之前，有一種感覺是“女性不屬于這些浪潮，或者她們不夠強(qiáng)壯，她們沒有能力，或者她們沒有準(zhǔn)備好在這些浪潮中競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，”道格拉斯·羅莎說。但坎寧安在那里記錄了它。

More photos of women surfing have encouraged more women to get in the water. Some have become photographers, and the explosion of social media have helped women get their work seen.

越來越多的女性沖浪照片鼓勵(lì)了更多女性下水。有些人成了攝影師，以及社交媒體的爆炸式發(fā)展，讓女性的作品得以曝光。

Cunningham has yet to get the cover — but she's got her sights set on something bigger anyway. Her goal is to continue shattering stereotypes and creating more possibilities for women on both sides of the lens.

坎寧安還沒有登上封面，但她已經(jīng)把目光投向了更大的目標(biāo)。她的目標(biāo)是繼續(xù)打破成見，為女性創(chuàng)造更多的可能性。