Darrell Jones
A staff photographer for Surfer magazine throughout the mid and late 1970s and 80s, Darrell Jones followed in the footsteps of future ECSHOF members Larry Pope (ECSHOF 2004) and Bruce Walker (ECSHOF 2002) providing the next generation of East Coast surfers with access to the international stage through his photos that appeared on the pages of the magazine.
Jones’ exceptional work covered many years documenting Hawaii’s North Shore photographing the world’s best. Traveling with and photographing the elite level surfers became his passion and his photography became the sport’s very best, gracing a number of the magazine’s covers and interior pages. His travels took him to every well-known surf country on the globe and many others that were less or hardly known surf locations on nearly every continent.
Jones’ incredible photography today graces such notable publications as Islands, Outside and many other national and international publications. It was also a well-known fact that Jones was considered to be the best surfer out of all the world’s surf photographers. No surprise he knew exactly what photos to take and it showed.
