In today’s episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Tom Walker, a Southern California–based fine-art photographer best known for cinematic sailing and regatta images, alongside street, infrared, and storm-chasing work that leans hard into light, wind, and atmosphere.
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Tom Walker is a Newport Beach, California–based fine-art photographer best known for sailing and yacht-racing imagery that aims to put you on the water—from serene passages to wild, wet regattas—often shot from a small pitching boat he treats as his floating studio.
He began photographing in high school in film darkrooms, first drawn to speed and spectacle through auto racing at Orange County International Raceway and Riverside Raceway, before studying photography in college and moving deeper into landscape work.
Over the past ~25 years, his sailing coverage has grown into an archive of 150,000+ images spanning everything from junior dinghies to big boats and vintage yachts, alongside parallel bodies of work in street, infrared, lava, and storm photography—work that has been exhibited and published locally, nationally, and internationally.
TOM WALKER
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