The ARTificial Wave - Building Your Vision

The ARTificial Wave - Building Your Vision

“The main vision for my work has always been to pursue and learn more about the relationship between water and light.”
Macro Challenge with Manfrotto

Macro Challenge with Manfrotto

Whether it’s a rainy, winters day or for whatever reason you’re stuck inside for the day, it’s no reason to not get creative. In fact, I see these days as an opportunity to challenge myself and think...
The Great Escape - the year of 2020.

The Great Escape - the year of 2020.

2020 has been an interesting year to say the least.. I literally caught the last plane outta Sydney and never went back. Those who know me, know the story, and although 2020 had some challenging times, it turned out to be...
Beyond the Window

Beyond the Window

About a week ago, the Manfrotto team asked me the question: What do you see from your window? It was an open brief, inviting me to challenge my creativity in this unique season of...
The Wonder of it All - Thurston x Kelsey

The Wonder of it All - Thurston x Kelsey

Join Thurston and Kelsey as they travel though beautiful New Zealand documenting some of the most iconic NZ landscapes with one question in mind.. What is it, that compels us to...
Dancing at the Edge of the Earth - Ft Kelsey Maskell

Dancing at the Edge of the Earth - Ft Kelsey Maskell

Kelsey and I spent a week exploring California before I came back to Australia. She moves through life so elegantly and carries such a vibrancy to her that I couldn’t help but bring the...
Norway - Meeting the King of the Sea

Norway - Meeting the King of the Sea

Travelling to the Arctic circle in winter, it may seem like madness, but even just the idea of swimming with the king of the sea, was enough to leave behind the warm comforts of summer and set out on a...
Chasing Slabs, Again.

Chasing Slabs, Again.

Chasing Slabs is a brief insight into the wave photography of Thurston Photo & Matt Blakers. Filmed on location along the remote coastline wilderness of Western Australia...
Swimming with Living Art

Swimming with Living Art

Creating a photography series on this majestic animal was something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, it’s like swimming alongside a living piece of ancient art...
Chasing Slabs

Chasing Slabs

Chasing Slabs is a brief insight into the wave photography of Thurston Photo & Matt Blakers. Filmed on location along the remote coastline wilderness of Western Australia...
From Dark to White

From Dark to White

In Dark to White, ocean photographer Philip Thurston provides an insightful story into the increasingly popular shark cage diving experience, and showcases the positives in how education and admiration for...
TONGA - Swimming with Gentle Giants

TONGA - Swimming with Gentle Giants

In this 10 minute mini documentary, Thurston Photo takes you on the experience of a lifetime; swimming with the gentle giants of the sea in the beautiful archipelago's of Vava'u, Tonga...
Blessed In The West

Blessed In The West

Heading West has always been an inevitable destination for me as an ocean photographer and when my good mate and fellow photog Matt Blakers presented the opportunity to make it happen I was...
Brothers.

Brothers.

These two brothers have been shooting and surfing together for a lifetime and this series gives an insight into the life behind the images and output of @ThurstonPhoto and @GlenThurston...
The Revolution of an Idea.

The Revolution of an Idea.

I've spent my whole life by the ocean, documenting its peaceful states and it's wild moods. I picked up my first camera over 10 years ago now. A lot has changed since then...
Open Ocean - Time Lapsed Wave Art by Burg Thurston

Open Ocean - Time Lapsed Wave Art by Burg Thurston

If you love waves, you'll know this is the classic wave that all young ocean lovers aspire to scribble in their school books, it depicts perfection and draws you into its...
Innovate - The Rotating Boardcam

Innovate - The Rotating Boardcam

It took months of trial and error, checking the surf forecasts, finding the ideal wave and a reckless disregard for on-set safety concerns to produce footage of the first...
The Morning Shift II

The Morning Shift II

Immerse yourself in the journey of The Morning Shift, an enlightening and encouraging documentary that tells the story of the challenges Burg Thurston faced when he had to give up his surfing dream to...
Battle Fit

Battle Fit

This is a short film starring Glen Thurston, hitting rock bottom, being defeated by one of the most dangerous waves around. One simple mistake at this wave resulted with Glen breaking...
The Pursuit of Excellence

The Pursuit of Excellence

Rarely do you pursue something long enough to be able to help change things for the better, and if you can, why not do that with everything you have, and then a bit...
Thurston Photo Prints

Thurston Photo Prints

Envision; to form a mental picture of something that is invisible or has not yet taken place. To consider the impossible as a possibility.. To create with your hands what already exists in the...