Life's Still a Beach, published by Hardie Grant in 1998, is a colourful snapshot of Australian beach culture through the eyes of one of the country's most celebrated social documentary photographers, Rennie Ellis.

Returning to the subject of his cult 1983 photobook Life's a Beach, Ellis turns his camera back to Australia's beaches, capturing the sun-soaked characters, changing fashions, and everyday absurdities of the 1990s. From the shores of St Kilda to Noosa, his photographs are full of humour, personality and candid moments of seaside life.

With 96 pages of colour photography, Life's Still a Beach is a wonderfully unfiltered look at a familiar part of Australian life. Equal parts social commentary and nostalgia, it's a great example of Ellis's ability to find something extraordinary in the ordinary.