INTERVIEWED BY CRAIG BRAITHWAITEB
orn in 1950, Jeff Divine
has watched the world
change. He’s also a master
of photography, having
documented the world’s
transformation, with a
camera in his hand, for over
five decades. A large chunk
of that career has been spent
shooting Hawaii’s North Shore. In
fact, for 35 winters, Jeff has been
perched front and centre aiming
his 600mm Canon lens into the
teeth of surfing’s most feared
and revered wave – Pipeline andBackdoor. While the Pipe playing
field hasn’t changed from the
’60s, when it was first surfed,
the people charging it and
their equipment most certainly
have. There has not been a Pipe
moment go down, without Jeff
being there to capture it. From
Hakman to Lopez, and Curren
to John John, Divine was there
behind the lends observing,
documenting, witnessing.
There’s no one more qualified to
assemble a Pipeline scrapbook,
than Jeff Divine.PIP
Jeff Divine
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