About me
I’m a lifestyle photographer creating visual stories for brands that reflect my love of surfing, travel, and life outdoors.
Photography has always been part of my life, but growing up my dream was to become a professional surfer. At 18, I left school, booked a one-way ticket to Costa Rica, and surfed every day. I stayed for seven years, competing on the Latin America Pro Tour and winning the UK Pro Surf Tour in 2012.
By 25, I’d fulfilled my competitive surfing ambitions and stepped away from competition. Surfing is still a huge part of my life, now purely for the joy of it.
Lifestyle and Travel Photography
During years of travel and immersion in new cultures, photography naturally became my creative focus. I’m now based in Newquay, Cornwall, but regularly travel worldwide, shooting lifestyle and product content for surf, fashion, and lifestyle brands, as well as businesses in the luxury travel sector. All of my work reflects the passions that have shaped my life - surfing, travel, and the outdoors.
Living outdoors has always been my constant. As time passes, I find myself seeking quieter moments in the wild - spending time offline, slowing down, and being fully present in nature. This has inspired my love of shooting cabins, retreats, and unique spaces in remote settings. I truly believe these experiences offer one of the most powerful resets for our nervous systems.
I’m incredibly grateful to work with a wide range of unique spaces, creating photography and video content that captures this feeling and helps potential guests connect with it across social platforms, websites, and print.
Clients & Community
I’ve poured my heart and soul into lifestyle photography, and along the way I’ve been fortunate to work with incredible international brands including Instax, SurfGirl, RipCurl, Stance, Reef and Canopy & Stars, with whom I continue to have a wonderful ongoing relationship.
I’m also proud to be the first UK female brand ambassador for Reef, a surf brand I’ve followed and been inspired by since I was a kid.
I firmly believe that with the right attitude, hard work, commitment, and positivity, we can achieve anything we set our minds to. I love sharing this energy with the brands I work with, helping them connect with their audiences in a positive, uplifting, and human way. Community matters deeply to me, and I value long-term relationships with my clients, seeking collaborations that grow stronger over time and allow us to create meaningful content together.
Client testimonials
“At SurfGirl we have worked with Evie on many projects over the last 4 years. Whatever we’re working on she always brings her A-game to the project. She’s enthusiastic, creative as well as being totally professional. Evie is a joy to work with.”
- Louise Searle, Editor, SurfGirl Magazine
“Evie Johnstone, photographer, stylist, surfer and traveller, is no Instagram-filtered cliche success. She is the real deal, brimming with vivacity, true grit and a fire in her belly like few others. Her positive energy is undeniably infectious; she sees potential everywhere and truly lives by the notion that almost anything is possible if you throw time, passion and sheer determination at it.
She is most likely to be found driving around the South from one interior styling project to another, car full of antique reclamation treasures for the next shoot and the 'just-in-case’ wetsuit. Flecks of paint from decorating her studio spatter her sun-kissed beach hair; her piercing blue eyes are bright with ideas and her gutsy laugh is fuelled by her wicked sense of humour and joie de vivre.”
- Holly Madge, Owner, Sailaway Dress Company
