I can take this kind of really uncontrolled, crazy environment -- the ocean -- and basically get it exactly to match what I had in my mind, i would sit there and wait literally hours to get the right combination of wash on the sand and the right turbulence out on the sea.

Michael Massaia

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I was searching for a way to present that type of subject in a new way, to reintroduce yourself to something you've been looking at for years and to see it in a whole new way.

Michael Massaia

When I first started looking at (the photos), when I first started printing them, it was very disorienting, i would see constellations and I would see a roiling, turbulent sky. ... The more I print them, the more I see them as a kind of design.

Michael Massaia

I always was looking up at the sky and, especially with surfing, I was always checking wind conditions, because I was so freaked out by it, I forced myself to learn a lot about it.

Michael Massaia

There's a bit of a romantic kind of element in just the way I like to view things, it's exciting to me when you can do something so simple as basically just inverting something, and it takes on this whole other life.

Michael Massaia