Surfer

SHOWCASE CHRIS KLOPF

There aren’t many surf photographers with a portfolio that includes imagery of both Mark Richards and CJ Nelson. Then again, there also aren’t many surf photographers who have had careers that span the better part of five decades—and there certainly aren’t any who have done it like Chris Klopf.

Born in 1950 in Marin County, a bucolic, redwood-dominated stretch of land just north of the

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