Dirty Water: Surf photography’s greatest virtuoso Steve Sherman on the “scum of hypocrisy”, the challenge of the “single permissive sexual standard” and the mystical worship and absolute domination of Kelly Slater!

Surfing's most loved and most exploited worker!

Today’s guest on Dirty Water is surf photography and surf journalism’s greatest virtuoso, the American Steve Sherman.

Over the course of thirty years, maybe even a little more, our guest has captured, in a manner one can only describe as iconic, pivotal events in the sport, from Kelly Slater’s multiple world titles to Andy Irons at his great peak in the early 2000s, to a naked four-time world champ to a chance encounter at a bar with surfing’s first, and still, openly gay male surfer smooching Kelly.

Our guest is a raw and emotional man who will gobble up everything on the breakfast tray and whom I once accidentally killed due to a very poor sense of humour and a lack of understanding of the severity of diabetes.