Sato, Denjiro "Hiroshi"

Discerning and unassuming Japanese-born surf photographer. Sato was born (1952) in Niigata, on the island of Honshu, got his first camera in 1966 at age 14, and began surfing in 1970. Sato, a self-taught photographer (and former sushi chef), whose work was first published in 1978, became a Surfer masthead photographer in 1983, not long after the magazine used two of his pictures of Hawaiian big-wa...