Filipe Toledo Gets the Barrel

Nearly 10,000 miles away from the Games in Paris, the 2024 Olympic surfing events are taking place in Teahupo’o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, where 48 surfers from 21 nations are competing in the men’s and women’s shortboard events. I’ve always loved surf photography—the incredible power and beauty of nature, combined with the daring, skill, and grace of the riders.

Here, Brazil’s Filipe Toledo gets a barrel in the second heat of the third round of men’s surfing, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo’o, on July 29, 2024.