The Amazing Photography of Krystle Wright

Being a photographer was Krystle Wright's dream. She started young and pursued photography with great tenacity. Krystle is now an accomplished photographer with magazines such as Outside and National Geographic. She spends most of her time on the road and is living her dream. Check out some of Krystle's amazing work.

Krystle Wright Captures the Magic of the Ocean

Shooting life above, below, and on the ocean

Krystle Wright

Krystle Wright got the photography bug while growing up in Queensland, on Australia’s northeast coast. At 18, she spent her life savings on underwater housing for her camera, hoping to become a surf photographer. “It was the best thing I ever did,” says the 30-year-old. “I would just go out in any conditions and shoot.” Photographing in heavy surf proved harder than it looked. “The first time I shot with a water houser, I head-butted the sand,” she says. As she grew more comfortable in the water, she turned her focus to other subjects, like paragliding in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range and BASE jumpers in Moab, Utah. Today, Wright—a freediver, skier, and climber—keeps her belongings in a shipping container in Queensland and travels 11 months of the year on commercial expeditions and assignments for magazines likeOutside andNational Geographic. More than a decade later, though, the ocean is still one of her favorite environments to work in. “Shooting in the water is always different—it’s never the same thing twice,” she says. —Will Ford

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