Extract: Sam Bleakley's Surfing Brilliant Corners

Jazz fan goes extreme surfing in Haiti

by Sam BleakleySunday, 19 September 2010

Surfer dude rides the waves

Sam Bleakley’s first book, Surfing Brilliant Corners, charts a decade of "extreme surf travel" with renowned photographer John Callahan. He is a jazz fanatic and surfer from Sennen, West Cornwall and a multiple European and British Longboard surfing champion. Surfing, Jazz, Geography and Ecology mix as he journeys to the likes of Mauritania, locked in political strife, where “landmines litter access to some of the best waves on the planet"; and Haiti, which "captures my heart and makes it race as if falling in love”.

In the syncretic Catholic-Voodoo view, one must live dangerously,close to death, and invite the dead into the place of the living as a preparation for the afterlife

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