Richard never really wanted to be a surf photographer. He always appreciated it as an art form and greatly admired the photographers' skills but was never really drawn to it himself. He has always been fascinated with conflict photography. Gritty, hard-hitting images from the world's war zones that stop and shock you. Richard would naively romanticize on disappearing into Central America, the mountains of Afghanistan, or the streets of Northern Ireland before reappearing months later with rolls of gnarly black and white images that would be run on the front pages of the world's biggest newspapers to shock society into action for peace. It never turned out that way and he has ended up living a quite idyllic life drifting between the Maldives, Indo and Micronesia with his beautiful wife Amy. You could say that Richard got lucky.
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