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DIMENSIONS: All prints are supplied in matts and backed. Dimensions listed below are the overall size of the matt.

IMAGE SIZE: 46.5 x 71.5 cm approximately (there's some variation).

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On a not-especially-wonderful day at Matakana there was this one, beautiful, just-about-perfect wave.
A wave at Matakana Island, New Zealand – 1975
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 The stylish surfing that made Midget Farrelly the outstanding Australian surfer of the first half of the 1960s. Midget won the Makaha contest in Hawaii in 1962 and the inaugural World Championships at Manly in 1964.<br /><em>Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery 2007</em><br />
Midget at Palm Beach – mid-1960s
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 In 1976, on the North Shore of Oahu, Mark Richards was regarded by many as the stand-out surfer of the winter. He liked the break at Haleiwa - "it's big, always coming at you, but you can hot-dog it". He also liked it because it was predominantly a 'local' place, and unlike some of the Australians that year, he got along with the Hawaiians. <br /><em>Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 2007</em>
Mark Richards at Haleiwa, Hawaii – 1976
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 When Bells closes out, Fishos is the only place to surf. When that’s all there is, it got crowded even in the 1960s.
Nat at Fishos, Victoria – 1965
Edition of 20 – 102 x 82 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Nat with the V-bottom board he took to the Islands that winter. <br /><em>Gift to the National Portrait Gallery 2007</em>
Nat in Hawaii – 1967
Edition of 20 – 102 x 82 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
Every Easter while the Bells contest was on a lot of the best free surfing was done at Winkipop. There is something about that coastline and the way that the swell sweeps onto it that is elemental – "one-man-and-the-ocean" doesn’t seem as clichéd as it otherwise might.
Nat at Winkipop – 1969
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Matakana Island is just off the coast from Mount Maunganui. In the mid-1970s it had the feel of all of those places that are a little hard to get to.
Rodney at Matakana Island, NZ – 1975
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 Rodney Dahlberg is a New Zealander who adopted Angourie (and was in turn accepted by the place) in the mid-1970s. He shaped the boards that many of the best local surfers rode and he knew the waves.
Rodney at Spooky 1 – 1975
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 In the 30 years since this picture was taken, many places have been discovered that are bigger, more radical, just more extreme than Sunset. None have dented its reputation as one of the world's premier big-wave breaks.
Sunset Beach – 1976
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
 For some reason, Torquay has always attracted a rich collection of characters. Among them was Charlie Bartlett (flashing the peace signs). The dog’s name was Rodney and the house was called ‘Springside’.
A house at Torquay – c. 1970
Edition of 20 – 82 x 102 cm
Kodak Endura print
Unframed price – $1250
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