Surfing Teahupo‘o, as Seen From Above and Below

The 2019 Tahiti Pro, stop No. 7 of the World Surf League Men’s Championship Tour, is under way this week in Tahiti. Brian Bielmann, a photographer with Agence France-Presse, is on the scene, capturing images of the surfers amid the beauty and chaos churned up by the famous waves of Teahupo‘o reef. Collected below, some of Bielmann’s photos of practice sessions and competition runs, as seen from the surface and from beneath the waves.

Read more
Hints: View this page full screen. Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→.

Most Recent

  • John Ricky / Anadolu / Getty
    • In Focus
    • 6:00 AM ET
    • 35 Photos

    Photos of the Week: Wheelbarrow Race, Count Binface, Orange Skies

    A volcanic eruption in Indonesia, a tilting tower in Taiwan, the Tokyo Rainbow Pride Parade in Japan, protests opposing Israel’s attacks on Gaza in the United States, and much more

  • Lukasz Nowak1 / Getty
    • In Focus
    • April 24, 2024
    • 30 Photos

    Chile’s Amazing National Parks

    Images of several of Chile’s national parks, encompassing a wide variety of environments

  • Juan Carlos Vindas / Getty
    • In Focus
    • April 22, 2024
    • 30 Photos

    For Earth Day, a Photo Appreciation of Birds

    A handful of images of the tens of billions of individual animals divided among some 10,000 species, inhabiting nearly every environment on Earth

  • AFP / Getty
    • In Focus
    • April 19, 2024
    • 35 Photos

    Photos of the Week: Burning Bull, Blue Forest, Olympic Flame

    Eid al-Fitr prayers in India, trophy winners at the Boston Marathon, the burning of a historic building in Denmark, a joyous water festival in Thailand, and much more

Most Popular on The Atlantic

  1. The Trumpification of the Supreme Court
  2. No One Has a Right to Protest in My Home
  3. The Happiness Trinity
  4. A New Sweetener Has Joined the Ranks of Aspartame and Stevia
  5. Columbia University’s Impossible Position
  6. Why Your Vet Bill Is So High
  7. A Prominent Free-Speech Group Is Fighting for Its Life
  8. The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education
  9. The Choice Republicans Face
  10. Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
Back to Top