Surfing Photo Feature with Nic Bothma

photo feature with Nic Bothma

Nic has been working as a photojournalist and surf photographer for the past 30 years, 18 of those as the Africa chief photographer for global news agency European Pressphoto Agency (EPA). With surf photography he has sailed around the world photographing and is drawn to the big wave scene as the coal face of extreme surfing. He has documented the brutal civil war in Liberia and many other African and global conflicts. Passionate about the environment he now seeks to focus on this area of photojournalism and tell the important stories we need to see and act upon to save humanity.

Jake Kolnik about to get drilled at Dungeons 21 August 2011. Jake is one of the hardest charging big wave surfers and as our trusty boat skipper Grant Spooner always puts it: “If you wanna dance, you gotto pay the band!”

More than 200 surfers paddle out prior to setting a new Guinness World Record for the “Most surfers standing on one wave” at Muizenberg Corner, Cape Town South Africa Sunday 17 September 2006. After several attempts the record was broken by 73 surfers riding the same wave.

The Atlantic Awakes. Andy Marr on one of the biggest waves i have ever seen at Dungeons, 24 July 2007.

Sunset. A perfect wave breaks on the Cape Town outer reef on Sunday 30/8/1998.

Ghost Ship - Unknown long boarder, Inner Kom.

Transkei 1997, line-up of a cooking right hand point. The swell was massive this day.

This picture was taken in Liberia LURD (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) rebel observed a ceasefire at the ‘New Bridge’ next to a bullet-riddled house and car in Monrovia, Liberia 06 August 2003

Senegal - An Almadie Peninsula local cuts loose on a right-hand bowl, 2005.

Eli Beukes getting shacked at Cape Point in Cape Town, South Africa, 18 March 2020. Just as lockdown hit us