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Mar, California and the Caribbean, the world to speak about graphic design. His clients include Fox television, Nike and 1M,~ITO'1Jol/S magazine. He is the former art director of Surftr, Transworld Snowboarding, Beach _ H.'fU'U·"" and Ray Gun magazines (A Surf Thru Life, page 48). KERBOX moved to Hawaii when he was ten, took his first surf lesson at Waikiki never looked back. In 1976 he turned pro and traveled the world circuit until 1983. In and a group of friends, including Laird Hamilton and Darrick Doerner, began a new big wave surfing: they invented the concept of tow-in surfing (Blue Mountains, page 44). l'hotogra.ph,er LEROY GRANNIS has been surfing since the early '30s. In 1960, he took up the surf (Surf Meccas: Then and Now, page 38). He began with the international colnpctil:iorls on Oahu and from 1961 to 1976 he didn't miss a December on the North "'~Ci." "h., .... Today, a world renowned surf photographer, Leroy still pursues his twin passions. He in southern California and, waves permitting, surfs the local break everyday. ~~~~~~#;i~~: FABIANO, an independent, New York-based photographer, has spent the last three years traveling in and out of the Balkan region with .his camera. Originally trained as a painter, Gary decided a few years back that photography would be the vehicle through which he could best explore issues that challenge the human condition. Gary hopes that his most recent images from Albania will express something of what the refugees from Kosovo are going through in their daily lives (Bearing Witness, page 26). "We can try and understand their plight by read- ing the newspapers, seeing the pictures and watching the news on Tv. But what Kosovars are experiencing is tenfold worse than anything we can understand by a picture alone. Pictures are made to bring awareness to a problem-bur it is the viewer's responsibility to delve deeper into the aaual humanness of what people around the world experience." e J;1,Crson responsible for the final degradation of the term "extrem~," CHRIS JAMES is artist who works primarily in video. Finding inspiration in a wave's self-destructive res- oJution, his preposterous notion of an Art Extrem has led him on a worldwide search of 'iLible oceanic energy pulses, the fruits of which are shared in Surf Meccas: Then and Now. 38. PHOTO, JOHNNY GIUNTA