Mick Sowry is a storyteller and surfer. He makes photographs, films, books and magazines about the ocean.

He is the award-winning writer, producer and director of The Reef and Musica Surfica — two films made in collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra — and the creative director and co=publisher of Great Ocean Quarterly, a journal of art, ideas and the sea. His. work has featured in The Surfer's Journal, Surfing World, Surfline, and Great Ocean Quarterly. In 2022 he published ‘a spark becomes an is’ — a limited edition hardbound book of photographs and observations, precipitated but the sudden death of his wife, Sue, in 2019.

Mick's large format photographic work recently featured in his solo exhibition ’Spark' at Hoop Gallery in Torquay, Australia, and the group show 'South West', at Boom Gallery, Geelong. Mick has two sons, Joey and Tom. Both are artists. He lives, with Tom, in the village of Jan Juc, just five minutes from his beloved Bell’s Beach, on Wadawurrung Country, at the bottom of Australia.