My name is Summer Strauch. I am an Emmy Award Winning, Content Creating, Visual Storytelling Hawaiian girl living in Southern California. My work is inspired by my love of the ocean + music. I hope you can experience the magic of the sea in the same way it sings to me through my photography.

Emmy-winning television producer Summer Strauch is now making waves in photography. Her ethereal vistas of sea and sky, dotted with distant boats, dolphins and surfers, conjure the ideal of timeless pleasure in the Pacific. The aquatic affinity is in her DNA. Her father, Paul Strauch was a champion Hawaiian surfer in the 1960s and ‘70s, and introduced his daughter to the waves when you was an infant. “Every free moment we had was spent at the beach,” she says of her childhood in Honolulu. “My Mom and Dad met in High School. He surfed and she was in bikini contests. Our whole family was influenced by the culture of the water.”

Summer began working in the television industry in New York City, eventually spending two decades at MTV, where she produced the Video Music Awards and New Year’s Eve specials featuring artists such as Coldplay, Eminem, Beyonce and Jay Z. She also won two Emmy’s for her work on the docu-series Made.

Accordingly, each of her photographs is named after a lyric that influenced it: Got That Sunshine In My Pocket, We Can Ride The Boogie, Take Me To Your River. “It’s always the happy songs that resonate with me,” she says. “Television was exciting, but photography just feels like the relationship my family has with water. It feels like home.”