About

My Name is Bruce Chrisner

History:

I first got into Photography while in the Navy. My first camera was purchased in Japan while on a West Pac Cruise in 1975. When I moved home to the East Coast after serving in the Navy and being stationed in San Diego Ca. I went right back to the beach in Long Beach Island, NJ for a couple of years, then moved back to Manasquan, NJ where I grew up going to the Beach as a kid. It was there that I first started shooting Surf Photography.

I’ve been a published surf photographer since 1983. As a dear friend and “protégé” of Richard “Mez” Meseroll, my first published photo was in the East Coast Surfer section of Surfer Magazine in 1982 with Lisa Roselli at the Helm and Mez, as the Photo Editor, (of which as we know was the seed to Mez & Dugan’s Eastern Surf Magazine). That year, I started traveling the East Cost shooting Surf and other Categories of Photography. In 1988 I wound up on the staff of Surfing Magazine as a Contributing Photographer. I will always thank Mez for my introduction to Larry “Flame” Moore at Surfing Magazine, from the Late 80’s, to the mid 90’s. Then I went to work for Mez and Dugan at ESM (Eastern Surf Magazine). Huge Accolades to both Mez and Dugan, I was there Senior Staff Photographer. I’ve also contributed to U.S. Surf Mag., Swell Magazine as well as Rare Breed Surf,Skate,Snow Magazine, along with various Wakeboard, Snowboard, Bodyboard and a few SUP Magazines as well.

I’ve taken Surf and Travel Photos all over the East Coast and the World. I’ve been a Manasquan Inlet Surfer for a long time, and have tried to use my photography to help advance some of our Surfers in town with their Sponsorships and Surfing Careers. I try to do that same thing no matter where I shoot Surf Photography! We try to make the Stars and then hopefully, they become Stars, if they choose that path.

I’ve been lucky enough in my Career to Travel a lot of the World while working for the Magazines. So you will see Travel Photos, Lifestyle, Landscape and Major Storm Photos. Under Action Sports you will find, Surf Photos, and eventually Snowboard, SUP, Wakeboard, and Skateboard Photos which will all be in that same category known as Action Sports.

Thank you and enjoy. This Web Site will always be a work in progress, and my email address is here if anyone wants to contact me, for purchasing a photo image.