EP 164: Jimmy Metyko - His new surf photography book “Shaping Surf History,” Photographing the legendary Tom Curren, California surf culture in the 1980s, Growing up surfing in Texas, and His love for surf photography

Surf photographer Jimmy Metyko joins the podcast. He talks about
his new book “Shaping Surf History: Tom Curren and Al Merrick,
California 1980-1983,” which chronicles the influential wave-riding
and surfing culture in Southern California, specifically Santa
Barbara County, in the early 1980s. He discusses how he became a
surf photographer and moved from his hometown of Houston, Texas, to
be around and capture the surfing of up-and-comers at the time,
like the legendary 1977 World Champion Shaun Tomson and pre-3x
World Champion Tom Curren. He reflects on his experience
photographing and traveling with this elite group of surfers, what
it was like to witness firsthand the progression of surfing with
the birth of the thruster and its refinement by Channel Islands
Surfboards spearhead Al Merrick, and how passionate he is about
surfing but even more about capturing surfers in his photographs.
Learn more about Jimmy and follow him here. Order your copy of
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