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."

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