580 - Jeff Divine

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Surf photographer and photo editor Jeff Divine’s imagery has largely framed our perspective on North Shore surfing from the 70s and 80s. Today he shares stories from the era defining Expression Session in 1971, reveals that he didn’t befriend Gerry Lopez until a decade after they had helped build one another’s careers, he discusses how the inception of clothing brands altered surf mags editorial style, shares how to showcase personality through still imagery, the best photo he’s ever missed, and how he chose his last ever surf session. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	It would be hard to think of a surph photographer whose imagery defined an era more than Jeff Devine's work on the North Shore in the 1970s and the 1980s. If the North Shore is Mecca and Pipeline
1:13.3	is its crown jewel, and Jerry Lopez is Mr. Pipeline, then you'd have to acknowledge that
1:19.5	all of this came into your awareness through photography. And some of Jerry's most well-known
1:26.3	photos, probably the ones that your mind is conjuring up
1:29.8	right now, were shot by today's guest. Born in 1950, began surfing in 1964, and shooting
1:37.8	photos in 1965. Divine would sell prints to his high school friends for a dollar apiece. By 1968, his first photo
1:47.4	was published in Surfer Magazine, and through the 70s he lived in Hawaii to document the
1:53.0	North Shore Winters, but was also an early surf traveler through Bali, South America, Mexico,
2:00.2	South Africa, and the South Pacific.
2:03.1	He was an obvious choice and without competition when he took the helm as photo editor
2:07.7	for Surfer Magazine in 1981.
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