Shooting the Tube: Hawaii Surf Photographer Don King


Derek Farrar:

King is particularly proud of a recent project, Stacy Peralta?s big-wave surfing documentary Riding Giants, which this year became the first documentary ever to open the Sundance Film Festival. The film features King?s footage of tow-in avatar Hamilton surfing sixty-foot beasts at Jaws. “It was one of the best swells there ever,” King remembers. “Perfect, perfect waves, and super huge. Riding Giants is a really entertaining, well-made film, and the stuff we shot that day is some of the most amazing surfing I?ve ever been part of. It still takes my breath away.”