Photographer Chris Burkard talks ambition, Iceland and taking career risks
Portrait by Ben Moon Chris Burkard began his career with a simple goal: become a photographer and use his job to see the world he couldn’t afford to see otherwise. He succeeded in short order, becoming one of the planet’s most sought-after surf photographers, with assignments taking him to tropical paradises from the Caribbean to the South Pacific. But the devout Latter-day Saint soon realized that amid his regular trips to vacation destinations, something was missing. He tried to find out what by giving up those tourist-heavy assignments in favor of remote surfing photography in places l...