Surfing is a draw for many, through which meaning emerges from embodied, sensory engagement in the act itself, connection with blue space, and rich cultural associations. Mark’s practice-led research explores surfing as a multi-sensory mode of engagement—shaped by the dynamic interaction of body, mindfulness, environment, place, and culture—and tests how such lived practices are visually documented.

This research examines the affordances and limitations of photographic and lens-based methods, positioning creative practice not only as a mode of representation but as a primary method of inquiry through making, to explore how lens-based ethnography may evoke surfers’ embodied experiences.

This body of practically-led research continues Mark’s fascination with the delineation of the everyday.