Evan Finch
Evan is our customer service rep and handles everything from reservations to updating our website. He works in a cubicle most of the day dreaming of his next trip to the Mentawai Islands. The last time he was there he got dragged across the ’surgeon’s table’ at HT’s and required stitches (when the captain finished [...]
Dave Collyer
Dave’s first trip to Indonesia was back in 1993. Since then he has traveled extensively in the archipelago and even lived in Bali for several years. He went on his first Mentawai trip more than decade ago and was hooked. Dave became our first shooter and pioneered guest photography services in the Mentawais and around the [...]
Riley Cooney
Originally from San Diego, Riley has been living the life of the endless summer for so long he can hardly remember when he called one single place “home”. After graduating from the prestigious Brook Institute of Photography, Riley packed his bags and made himself a new life as a surf photographer. He has been traveling [...]
Sean Davey
Sean Davey is one of Surfing’s top photographers (and a bit of a legend/mentor to the rest of us on the Mentawai Surf Photos team). If you don’t know his name then you don’t read magazine photo captions, which is ok, but you may have hung one of his photos from a magazine on your [...]
Sean Gilhooley (Video)
Sean’s ‘Bahasa’ is really coming along. He can joke with the locals around his beach community in Bali and even order a ‘nasi goreng pedas’ on his mobile phone whilst driving on his motorbike. This is big considering that learning the Indonesian language didn’t come as easily to Sean as Video and Editing. Early in [...]
Zak Noyle
Zak grew up in Hawaii and has been around photography his entire life. His Dad, Ric Noyle, is a well respected Hawaiian lensman, so Zak learned about F-stops and shutters somewhere around elementary school. It wasn’t until later he discovered his true gift – water photography. Physically, Zak is built to swim. He is tall [...]
