Grant Rohloff (Grant & Chris Rohloff Films, Inc.) is an iconic surf culture and beach lifestyle brand. We are the sole copyright owner to Grant Rohloff images. Our collection consists of over thousands of still photos and many hours of stock footage from the 1950’s-1970’s shot by famous surf photographer and filmmaker, Grant Rohloff. Subjects to all images and films consist of surf culture, beach lifestyle, iconic surfers (Greg Noll, Miki Dora, etc.), skateboarding, motorcycling and the environment.
Our company has sold high volumes of framed and signed limited edition photos to home staging companies, hotels, restaurants, interior designers, celebrities and art collectors around the world. In addition, we’ve partnered with various apparel companies and Getty Images for the use of Grant Rohloff images and stock footage. Stock movie footage is licensed for feature films, documentaries and commercials. Still photos are used for books, magazines, signed limited pieces for sale, apparel and various other consumer products.
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Chris Rohloff, President
Email: chris@grantrohloff.com
Direct line: 310-666-7972
Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, Chris graduated from Santa Monica High School in the mid 80’s along with some other well-known faces in Hollywood. He is an avid surfer who learned to surf by age twelve during a trip to Puerto Vallarta. If you don’t catch him surfing the waves of the California coast then you might catch him riding one in Indonesia, Australia or Hawaii.
Like his father, Chris has a penchant for photography and the movie industry working on sets and a member of various unions for ten years. Now an entrepreneur, Chris strives to live out the lessons he learned from his father which were – be creative, do something that no one else has done, keep a sense of humor, and don’t take yourself or life too seriously. Chris has photographed many spots through his travels over the years and is now making his photos available to the public.
Maria von Losch Rohloff, Vice President
Email: maria@grantrohloff.com
Direct line: 310-592-6724
In twelve short years of public relations and marketing endeavors, Maria has carved out a rightful place among some of the city’s top communications professionals. Working as an independent consultant, as well as, on both the agency and client side has allowed her to gain a global view of the practice. Before embracing her talents as a publicist and opening up her own firm, Losch PR, Maria also owned a vintage clothing store in Hermosa Beach in the early 90's, and developed and sold a company called GoofBalls "antenna balls with attitude". Losch PR specializes in traditional publicity as well as social media marketing in hospitality, travel/tourism, wellness, beauty, fitness & charities.
For 2009-2010, Maria will be directing her attention towards Grant Rohloff company as part owner with her husband, spearheading their national & international marketing and PR campaigns.
Maria is a board member of various organizations and events such as Friendly House, Fashion For Life, Taste of Santa Monica and State of the City (Santa Monica). She is a member of the National Association for Female Executives and the Women's Entrepreneur Network. She is also a founding member for the Wall of Tolerance and a volunteer for Reading To Kids.
Grant Rohloff (1935-1989), Surf Photographer & Filmmaker
Grant Rohloff was born in Hollywood, California in 1935 and started surfing in the early 50's. Grant’s love of surfing and fascination with watching other surfers led him first to a brief apprenticeship with John Severson (Surfer Magazine founder/and surf filmmaker) and eventually to his own career as a still photographer and surf filmmaker.
Grant’s first project, titled appropriately "The Wonderful World Of Surfing" was released in 1960 and was followed by 12 other surf movies including the highly acclaimed "Men Who Ride Mountains". "Grant was ahead of his time and way ahead of the pack back in the 60's,” notes, C.R.Stecyk III (photographer, writer). The posters Grant used for promoting these movies were commonly the photos he had taken during actual filming sessions.
His films managed to capture not only the serious and great business of surfing, but also the humorous, real-life “off times” of the surfers. Rohloff always began his movies with a comic scene (in keeping to his mission for his work) – to inform and entertain. To him, filmmaking and surfing were so much more than a vocation; they were a way of life.
