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A run-in picture at Cactus – 1971 I’m sure that some of my friends got sick of me sticking a camera in their faces. I was pretty relentless in documenting life around me. This mucking-about picture was taken in the spectacular dunes at Cactus in South Australia after we’d shot an ad for O’Neill wetsuits. Work and play were inextricably mixed up together. Photo: Witzig
When I was searching through my old pictures to make an initial select for A Golden Age that Rizzoli published earlier this year, I came across a bunch of pictures that’d slipped from my mind or never been there in the first place. There were no wondrous discoveries unfortunately – more that I was reacquainted with pictures that’d been published some 40 years before, or noticed others that I hadn’t seen the significance of. That was pretty nice actually.
To see more photos from John Witzig’s A Golden Age: Surfing’s Revolutionary 1960s and ’70, click here