A master safari guide
commands his rate
because he has been there
a thousand times.
John Seaton Callahan is a Worldwide Surf Travel Expert, professional photographer and founder of the surfEXPLORE Group. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — Bachelor of Design, College of Fine Arts — he has spent 35 years building one of the most comprehensive private archives of surf exploration on the planet.
He has completed more than 100 international surf travel projects in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas since 1990. His work has been published in every major surfing publication worldwide, with more than 130 cover images and over 6,000 pages of editorial material. He is represented by Getty Images with a current portfolio of 32,000 images and video clips.
John is listed on Matt Warshaw's authoritative Encyclopedia of Surfing. He is the author of surfEXPLORE: Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide, published by Schiffer Publishing. His client history spans film and television producers, travel providers, publishers, companies and private individuals.
From naming "Cloud 9" on Siargao Island in the Philippines, to exploring the Maldives with Tony Hinde-Hussein, to being the first to surf many locations worldwide — including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India and now-famous breaks across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas — John has done it all over the past 35 years.
His service is research, planning, group co-ordination, travel logistics, photography and videography — the full spectrum, from blank map to executed expedition. Clients include access to locations that do not appear in any app, platform or public database. In the right place at the right time, every time.
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