Heritage Surf Products

Heritage endeavours to stock a great range of labels that represents the overall culture within surfing.

Given the growth of major surf companies over the years, in a great many instances, it has been at the expense of many iconic labels and brands.

It's not that these brands aren't available, it's just that in the competitive nature of the larger companies as we now know them, the small unique labels have been overshadowed - for the larger companies, if they don't make it, they don't stock it.

At Heritage, our goal is to seek and stock as many of these classic labels and brands as is possible and to the best of our ability, maintain their deserved place within our culture.

There are also a great many new and exciting brands with a similar ethos toward the culture and spirit of surfing that we will also stock and support at Heritage.

Photography

Jack Eden

The late fifties and early sixties were a special time for surfing. Great transitions were made in a sport that had been the obscure domain of the surf lifesaving movement. Suddenly new characters appeared in the surf. Surfing skills, dress, cars, music and attitudes were created that reflected a carefree, hedonistic lifestyle. If you wore jeans you were anti-social and if you rode a motorbike you were a bodgie.

Then surfing came along with the clothes, music and image and helped break down barriers. All too soon this special decade had vanished and it wasn't until the nineties that the real value of the time was realised. Luckily, Jack Eden caught many of the major players of this era on black and white film. His precision images truly convey the uniqueness of a never to be repeated pioneer period in Australia's surfing life.

All Jack Eden's photographs are individually developed on quality photographic paper, numbered and signed - a process which is well and truly a dying art in our digital age. These images, in the way in which they are presented, are something that will not be available for very much longer.

Hugh McLeod

It was Bob Evans who created Surfing World - a magazine that, to this day is held in the highest esteem throughout the world. Following Bob's unfortunate early passing, it was Bruce Channon and Hugh McLeod who carried the mantle of this great magazine for over 25 years. In that time they witnessed, documented and were responsible for more of what happened within Australian surfing than any other single entity.

Hugh McLeod (Aitton) was the photographer/designer for Surfing World over those years who has been responsible for most of the iconic images we remember from the 70's, 80's and into the 90's.

Heritage and Hugh McLeod have created a limited edition selection of some of Hugh's greatest photographs, covering many of the great surfers of our time.

Within Hugh's portfolio is also some classic line-up shots of many of our iconic breaks around Australia, such as Crescent Head, Shark Island, Burleigh Heads, Kirra, Green Island and Fairy Bower.

If Jack Eden, John Witzig, and others well and truly documented the 60's and early 70's, Hugh McLeod was one of the main men of the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Brett McLeod

Brett McLeod is a local North-side Sydney photographer who has been capturing the feel and spirit of the Peninsula surfing for a great many years. His great photography, coupled with the unique treatment he applies to his photographic work give rise to unique images that transcend the bridge between photography and art.

Dick Hoole

Dick Hoole is Australia's most renowned film-maker/photographers. Having been responsible, along with Jack McCoy, for iconic surf movies such as 'Tubular Swells' and 'Stormriders'.

Dick was first and foremost a photographer and it is his great images captured throughout the years that are now selectively available at Heritage.

Albe Falzon - Morning of the Earth

The images of 'Morning of the Earth' are indelibly stamped within more surfers minds than you could ever care to imagine and technology has now enabled a lot of those images to be lifted from frames within the film and presented as moments captured for eternity within a photograph.

A selective range of images from 'Morning of the Earth' are available as limited edition prints, numbered and signed by Albe Falzon.

Dan Merkel

Dan Merkel is an American photographer whose images are renowned throughout the world. He was one of the great photographic pioneers within Hawaii through the 70's and 80's and outside of his amazing surf photography, he is also renowned for his incredible photography within the realm of dolphins and whales.

We have a great body of work from Dan which is able to be reproduced in any photographic format that you would chose, be it prints, canvas or otherwise.