Her new zerowaste cookbook, simplicious flow, was released in australia in september 2018. Books, images, historic newspapers, maps, archives and more. The first book is launched a day at bondi and 7,000 copies are sold overnight. A day at bondi is 208 pages of photos taken at every hour from sunrise to sunset, capturing the first morning light, the maddening noon crowds and the magic hour of twilight. This time, in the aegean sea on a tiny volcanic paradise island called milos. Eugene tan, the master of oceaninspired photography, has released his third coffee table book and it features all of the the aquabump gallerys mostloved images taken in bondi over the last few years. Jan 23, 2015 i didnt have a long term vision or plan like im going to create this big empire build it up and sell it, tan said. Eugene tan uge is the little fanatical half chonga that kicked it all off back. Helmed by local photographer, eugene tan, aquabumps captures aesthetic af images of waves, surfers, swimmers, sunrises and everything else that happens in the wee hours of the morning down at. Recently, my brother in law shared with me an amazing surfing photography book titled the beach blog from the aquabumps surfing photography blog by eugene tan. Books gift ideas blog blog archive features videos noticeboard inspiration gallery what is aquabumps. A uge who founded aquabumps has been signing his name uge with the double colons. He posts daily reports on surf conditions to thousands of followers all over the world.
Filed under swim underwater underwater ballet aquabumps photooftheday. There are few things as quintessentially australian as the work of eugene tan. The aquabumps creator, who moved from perth to sydney in his. We visited in 2011, and spent hours in his studio selecting some. See more ideas about bondi beach, still love you and girls out. Their daily emails add a whole lot of surf and bondiloving to our inboxes and get us amped up for the day if were not. How many of australias top 33 digital influencers do you follow. He worked as a creative director at a digital agency in 1999.
Daily photos from the beachsurf by photographer eugene tan uge see more at. Her 2017 book first, we make the beast beautiful, a new story of anxiety, is a besteller in the us, uk, australia and more. Off the success of aquabumps book 1 a day at bondi the 2 nd book was released, beach blog. Unlike its neighbouring islands of the cyclades mykonos, santorini, milos isnt all about partying. As coowner of celebrated surry hills restaurant nomad, interior architect rebecca yazbek knows how to create a beautiful space for diners to eat. Eugene tan captures bondi beach at sunrise every day, and has done so for 14 years, sending his images to. How bondi photography eugene tan captured the world. If you are overseas we can send framed artworks, or if you prefer unframed prints rolled in a tube, no problem. This massive image collection mainly resides solely on racks of geeky. Eugene tan s passion for the ocean started when he was pretty young and here he reveals how he has turned this love into a thriving photography business, aquabumps. Today, eugene combines both of his passions surfing and photography in his successful photography business, aquabumps. Want to stay up to date with momento photo books australia. Eugene and debbie tan, aquabumps the downtime agenda.
Aquabumps gallery 151 curlewis street, bondi beach, nsw 2026 phone. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. These aquabumps photos reveal just how terrible the. You may recognise his iconic aerial shots of bondi beach, that have become a daily fix for 40,000 email subscribers and 122,000 instagram followers. Havaianas is proud to present the first style featuring colour photo print. Aug 06, 2018 eugene tan aka uge created aquabumps from his love of photography and the ocean. Slim fit crew neck short sleeve t shirt with original neck bind. In the nineties, blogs hadnt evolved yet, but eugene, better known as uge yooj, thought hed provide a nice daily break for. What started as a small group email has morphed into a 40,000strong subscription list. His passion for photography began when he was a boy.
He has created a loyal fan base since starting a daily email of surf photos over a decade ago. Aquabumps is the creation of bondi resident and famed photographer, eugene tan. Photographing australias beaches with eugene tan canon. In our throwaway society, david miles upcycles books into. Show me a qt hotel in any australian city or regional area and ill book it. Ive made a living out of my passion which means i get to travel a lot to photograph beautiful places for work but it also means holidays are a hybrid of work and holiday. Aquabumps is an iconic australian ocean photography brand founded by australian photographer eugene tan in 1999.
Aquabumps in wanaka eugene tan the man behind the lens of leading surf photography site aquabumps is also a huge fan of the new zealand mountains and wanaka is always a favourite stop whenever he crosses the ditch. The has now become a part of the aquabumps logo and branding. No expense sparedthis is the book of booksthe mutha lode. Prints available with worldwide delivery, or lose an hour browsing the bondi blog. Oiled brown bodies coiling into each other like conga lines of eels. The aquabumps creator, who moved from perth to sydney in his early twenties, has become somewhat of an unofficial photographer of beachside life, capturing everything from quiet earlymorning moments in the swell to busy, sweltering summer days on the sands of bondi beach. If conditions permit youll find uge swimming with his camera or dangling out of helicopters, constantly hunting for new angles on his favourite. Jul 01, 2016 there are few things as quintessentially australian as the work of eugene tan.
Dom and adrian in an exclusive underwater bondi fashion shoot with local bondi photographer eugene tan from aquabumps. He also shares the lessons he has learned about success in photography, from his early days in cottesloe to the iconic sands of bondi beach. Every day he features new photos inspired by the ocean on his social media pages and through hard work and determination, has gathered a cultfollowing online. Posts about aquabumps written by momento photobooks. The other night i got to go along to a photo walk with eugene tan of aquabumps, i have been getting this guys emails i reckon for at least the past 15 or so years in my inbox. Dysfunctional parents and the child they ignore are brought together when a dugong appears in. All our artworks are madetoorder, one by one, in australia. Nov 01, 2018 dillon is an environmental scientist and has cowritten gardening books for the little veggie patch co.
Sep 20, 2018 dillon is an environmental scientist and has cowritten gardening books for the little veggie patch co. These aquabumps photos reveal just how terrible the drought. Debbie tan business partner and wife of eugene tan from aquabumps had one such idea. Please enter your email address to receive new post notifications. Eugene tan talks aquabumps, helicopters and photography. Theres been a book 2010s a day at bondi and theres another one on the way in october. Frank mentored tan on how to shoot in the water, and as tan s photography skills grew, so did the word of mouth about his daily emails. Mr eugene uge tan, a local photographer who kindly sends his catch of the day to anyone who subscribes to his morning newsletter. Weve been framing artworks immaculately since 2000. Related books 1 hers was a beauty no man could resist. Eugene tan gets up, leaves his hopefully still sleeping small children and wife and heads the few blocks from his home to the beach to shoot the sunrise just as he has almost every day since 1999. If this drought and project has taught me anything, its that water is a finite source that brings an enormous value to the thriving culture we. Bondibased aquabumps started out in the 90s as an online alias for eugene uge tan who combined his three passions.
The bucket list on bondi beach has a pretty damn good view and the coronas are cold. Feb 01, 2009 nameless, ageless, genderless firstperson narrators bring readers into offbeat yet recognizable places in this sparkling, mindbending collection from the creator of the arrival 2007. Every 15 minutes there was a freaky head high set rolling into the rip bowl in the middle, but i could have been lucky with my timing. We also launched the longawaited aquabumps book, a day at bondi in 2010. Hes a self taught tinkerer, a constant experimenter and a relentless documenter who likes to shoot unassisted, mainly at sunrise. Aquabumps eugene tan on the art of photography and beauty. Eugene tan, founder of aquabumps, made his name in photography with a razor focus on the waters of bondi, kickstarting an artistic empire that comfortably has straddled the line between internet. I was thinking it might have come up a bit more this morning than it did. The perfect gift for any beach lover shooting daily for 17 years means eugene tan amassed 400,000 images from the beach. Aquabumps was the first gallery in australia to adopt the new metallic prints, acrylic face mounts in 2002 and acrylic blocks in 2009. He picked up the book while visiting bondi beach in australia, a mecca for those who love surfing. A day at bondi aquabumps book by eugene tan on vimeo. Gin lane, southampton, new york the property addict distinct dwellings.
A book based on eugene tan s photographs taken over 17 years of sunrises at bondi beach, australia. Printing em big in a salubrious hard copy book is the go. Together they have written and photographed all entries in the book with contributions from eugene tan aquabumps, remy gerega, alex kydd, nikki to and kate berry. Dropboxs new sydney office is worth leaving your job for. Sydney water has partnered with eugene tan of aquabumps to release a limitededition photography series that depicts the impact recent drought conditions have had on greater sydney during some of the driest conditions on record. Beautiful vistas of bondi coming to a bikini near you. Aquabumps has launched its 3rd book, the bondi book. Eugene tan is a bondibased photographer who has managed to combine his three greatest passions surf, photography and the web to create a highly successful website and brand called aquabumps. Eugene tan uge started taking photos when he was nine. Well be sharing more inspirational stories in the weeks, months and years to come. From monday to friday, the photos are uploaded daily onto this website. A book based on eugene tans photographs taken over 17 years of sunrises at bondi beach. Shooting daily for 17 years means eugene tan amassed 400,000 images from the beach. Its the line written on his website and one that sums his work up well.
The idea came about in 1999 when eugene tan, a frustrated creative director combined his three passions. The initial idea came about in 1999 when he combined his three passions. The sheer dedication of eugene tan aka uge to rise before dawn every day to capture the life of bondi, is amazing. From the moment she became his highland captive, it was only a matter of time before they came together in an explosion of desire. Helmed by local photographer, eugene tan, aquabumps captures aesthetic af images of waves, surfers, swimmers, sunrises and everything else that. Tan s images are iconic and his passion is contagious. View the profiles of professionals named eugene tan on linkedin.
Aquabumps has spawned a gallery in bondi, naturally, two books, a swimwear collaboration with speedo and haviana thongs, as well as an online juggernaut that includes 40,000 email subscribers, 58,000 facebook followers and 150,000 unique website visitors a month. Interesting morningits as if someone was messing with the hue and saturation dials in my head ive never been the same since i cracked my head open at vuey but thats another story. Photographer eugene tan, better known as uge pronounced yooj, runs aquabumps with his wife debbie. Aquabumps gallery only a couple of blocks away from the beach you will find the aquabumps gallery, which is the home of beautiful beach photography, all taken by local photographer eugene tan. Erotica for a gay universe kindle edition by bowen, gary, powell, mason, laurents, david, scott, leo, tan, cecilia. Jul 21, 2019 in our throwaway society, david miles upcycles books into funky journals for gifts or to record your thoughts and journeys. The result is the speedo aquabumps collection of swimwear featuring digital prints of tan s photographs of surfers, australia day, sunrise and dusk at bondi beach, as well as an aerial view of. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading wired hard.
Oct 17, 2016 which the office has, by the way customised by iconic bondibased photographer eugene tan of aquabumps, no less. Daily photos from the beachsurf by photographer eugene tan uge. There is a fixed, and vivid perception, of bondi as a great, white, worshipped crescent of sand, fifty thousand, sometimes more, melting into its shore. Aquabumps is a website and daily email dedicated to early morning beach life. At home with surry hills restaurant nomads coowner rebecca. Eugene tan captures bondi beach at sunrise every day, and has done so for 14 years, sending his images to more than 90,000 people each morning facebook and website combined.
Aquabumps specialises in photographs of beach life, both above and below the ocean, taken by eugene at his local beach. Jan 8, 2017 theres some ne swell on its way to sydney. This massive image collection mainly resides solely on racks of geeky hard drives. Read online or download science fiction ebooks for free. Aquabumps was forged outta one mans passion for the ocean, waves, surfing and photography. Feeling unfulfilled in the role, he spent his time sending friends photos hed taken of beaches around sydney.
Aquabumps is a gallery depicting sydneys beaches through photography. Browse through our ebooks while discovering great authors and exciting books. Eugene tan and his aquabumps ozy a modern media company. A book based on eugene tans photographs taken over 17 years of sunrises at bondi beach, australia. Aquabumps, a daily email, keeps 40,000 subscribers uptodate on the adventures of the surfers good and bad, waves, swimmers, sunrises and whatever happens in the wee hours down at the beach.
To an outsider, your whole life looks like downtime. Eugene tan is the guy who started aquabumps, a site that has become the defacto beach lifestyle photography site for sydneysiders and beyond. Some of the best ideas are the ones that seem impossible at the time. Eugene tan uge is the little fanatical half chonga that kicked it all off back in the 90sa purely original concept to take photos of the beach daily. The series aims to remind people about the record dry conditions across greater sydney and how steeply our dams declined. Eugene tan aperture australia photography conference 2020. The aim of the images is to transport viewers from their workstation to a place or space where they can almost smell. In our expedition, siblings set out to see if anything exists beyond the end of their fathers road map. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Posts about aerial photography written by momento photobooks. The stunning coffee table book captures the iconic bondi beach in all its glory, from sunrise to sunset. Eugene captures sydneys lively beaches every morning through his camera. His gallery is located near his favourite spot in the city. With writing andor drawing paper and a sturdy front pocket to keep things you collect, he also creates customised journals on request where you may choose a book some have birth year on the front cover or david can even source a chosen style of.
She wanted to combine her love of fashion, ballet, and underwater photography. Bondi, and from his travels around the world from the amalfi coast to hawaii. Aquabumps may have started as a simple outlet for his love of surfing and photography, but it has now swelled enough to warrant two gorgeous photography books and a full time gallery. Photographer eugene tan is synonymous with bondi and beach photography. Qt bondi is the latest to be rolled out by this clever hotel chain. For the past 17 years ive dedicated my mornings to photographing bondi beach every single day, writes tan on his website. Eugene tan, founder of aquabumps, made his name in photography with a razor focus on the waters of bondi, kickstarting an artistic empire that comfortably has. Eugene tan aka uge created aquabumps from his love of photography and the ocean. While his classmates had their heads in books, eugene was in the dark room processing pictures and teaching himself the art of photography.
In the nineties, blogs hadnt evolved yet, but eugene, better known as uge yooj, thought hed provide a nice daily break for his mates to see a bit of surf at work. Icebergs is the same, but my favourite would have to be on the back of a boat anchored off a good surf break. Despite his frequent jetsetting to the sands of hawaii, tahiti and the maldives, we chat to uge about where his home, heart and brunch loyalties really liebondi. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Designed in homage to the australian home by architecture, design, planning and consulting firm gensler, the office cleverly mimics the layout of the average albeit amazing local abode. Every day he features new photos inspired by the ocean on his social media pages and through hard work and determination, has gathered a. Sep 30, 2011 aquabumps began in 1999 when founder eugene tan started emailing shots of bondi life to his mates. He has three photography books and numerous commercial.