Club of the Waves

Joni Stern­bach

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Photographer — Brooklyn, New York

Kassia Meador, Donald and Jen

Joni Sternbach was born in the Bronx, New York, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She is a visiting artist at The Cooper Union and faculty member at Penumbra Foundation in NYC, where she teaches wet plate collodion. Sternbach uses early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and environmental portraits. Her work centers on our relationship with water. Her long-term projects involve the pursuit and understanding of the Western landscape and the series Surfland, which captures portraits of surfers in tintype. Sternbach’s work is part of many international public collections including the NPG, London, MOCA Jacksonville, Nelson Atkins Museum, St Louis Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the recipient of several grants including NYFA and CAPS and the Santo Foundation. Her monograph, Surf Site Tin Type (pictured below) was published in 2015 and her latest, Surfboard in 2020.

Kyuss and Rasmus
Bruce Brown
Surfer magazine cover featuring Joni Sternbach tintype photo
The Future
Keoni
Laure and Chloe
Lily
Ivan
Surf Site Tin Type by Joni Sternbach
Winter in California
Dave Rastovich
Lyndie and Axel Irons
Kelly Slater and Kalani Miller
Lily
Robert August and Robert “Wingnut” Weaver from the movies Endless Summer and Endless Summer II
Eben and Elizabeth
Lone Surfer
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