Don King (photographer) explained
Don King (born 1960) is an American photographer, cinematographer, and film director. He is best known for his photographic and cinematic images of ocean surface waves and surfing.
Don King was a high school sophomore the first time he sold a photograph. The purchaser was Surfing Magazine, which used it on its cover of an issue.
After graduation from Punahou School in 1978, King attended Stanford University where he majored in psychology, belonged to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and was on the Stanford Cardinal water polo team which won the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championships of 1978, 1980 and 1981. He graduated from Stanford in 1983.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Don King lives on Oʻahu with his wife Julianne Yamamoto King and their sons Beau, Aukai and Dane.
Cinematography
This is a very incomplete list of King's camera and direction credits in film and television.
- 1987: North Shore
- 1988: The Tribal Trials bodyboarding video with Jack Lindholm, Ben Severson, and Mike Stewart
- 1994: The Endless Summer II
- 1995: The Living Sea
- 1997: "Tidal Wave" episode, Discovery Channel Raging Planet series
- 1998: City of Angels
- 1999: Surfing for Life
- 2000: Cast Away
- 2001: "The Big Squish" and "Blue Holes" episodes, National Geographic Channel The Next Wave series
- 2002: Heart of the Sea, award-winning documentary of the life of surfing champion Rell Sunn.
- 2002: Blue Crush
- 2002: Die Another Day
- 2002: "Condition Black" episode, Nature series
- 2003: Step into Liquid
- 2004: Riding Giants
- 2005: "Violent Hawaii" episode, Nature series
- 2005: Lords of Dogtown
- 2006: Beautiful Son
- 2008: Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2nd Unit D.P.
- 2009: Dear John water unit D.P.
- 2010: Hereafter water camera operator
- 2011: Soul Surfer 2nd unit D.P., B-camera operator
- 2011: The Descendants water camera operator
- 2011: Just Go With It water camera operator
- 2011: water camera operator
- 2011: Off the Map water camera operator, B-camera operator
- 2012: Battleship water camera operator, C-camera operator
Television
Commercials
- American Express "Laird" - Director, Cinematographer
- Cool Water/Davidoff - Director, cinematographer
- Apple - water cinematographer
- Armani - water cinematographer
- Hyundai - water cinematographer
- Coca-Cola - water cinematographer
- Guinness - water cinematographer
- Norwegian Cruise lines - water cinematographer
- Johnson & Johnson - water cinematographer
- Maytag - water cinematographer
- Toyota -water cinematographer
- Weight Watchers -water cinematographer
- E Harmony -water cinematographer
- Kaiser -water cinematographer
- 2006: SHISEIDO "TSUBAKI in Japan - water cinematographer
- 2011: Nike Commercial water cinematographer
Music Video