Hailing from San Diego, California, Jeff Divine took up surfing in 1964 when he was 14. Two years later he bought a camera, and the rest is history. For the next 35 years, he worked as a photo editor with Surfer magazine, the bible of the sport, and Surfer’s Journal, documenting the then-nascent surf scene long before it became a global phenomenon.
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With the March 10 publication of Jeff Divine: 70s Surf Photographs, we travel back in time to the golden age of surfing. In Divine’s sumptuous colour and black and white photographs, we join bands of teenage boys as they invent the culture and the sport that would soon take the world by storm. “We were so addicted to surfing. It was so deep in our psyche, like nothing else mattered,” Divine tells Another Man. Here, the photographer shares his memories of life riding the wave.
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