Jason Salisbury peels back a corner of the canvas, Indo

Is a moment like this not just everything in surfing? A wall of water, that the photographer has let bleed to the edges of his frame, and that anticipation, almost better than the fulfilment. In this instance, the surfer is Jason ‘Salsa’ Salisbury. The place, Desert Point in Indonesia. Salsa is an Australian but, like many Australians who find the allure of year-round trunk surfing all too powerful, he spends a good chunk of time in Indonesia. Prior to this Deserts trip, Salsa had owned a Neal Purchase Jr-shaped Quartette – a quad that he’d been riding all over Indonesia for the entirety of three seasons, which had somehow managed to survive such enthusiastic use. And on this trip, he broke it. Snapped clean in half. “He just received a new one along with a couple others from NPJ,” says the photographer, Tom Hawkins. “So he’ll be back getting as barreled as possible soon.”