Vava Ribeiro's intimate photos capture the real Hawaii

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Vava Ribeiro's intimate photos capture the real Hawaii:

His obsession with Hawaii began when he was a teenager growing up a short bike ride from Ipanema Beach in the mid-80s. Being so close to the ocean he could taste it, Ribeiro developed an appetite for surfing. But there wasn’t much in the way of media to tide him and his friends over between sessions in the water.

After surfing competitively for a while, Ribeiro moved to New York City and built a career as a photographer. Unable to endure the long, dark winters, and with his work being “mostly location and daylight photography,” it made sense for him to be somewhere sunny. So he began his yearly pilgrimages from the frigid Eastern Seaboard to Hawaii’s North Shore.

Iconic aerial s was one such person. “He’s always had this legend status but he’s always been a weirdo, very mysterious. I was trying to photograph him for many, many years,” Ribeiro says. Then one day, after they’d made plans multiple times and Fletcher kept failing to show, it finally happened. “It was Christmas morning, and he showed up at my door with a shaver in his hand. He says, ‘Can you shave my head?’ and I’m like ‘okay.

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