John Witzig contributed his first article to Surfing World magazine in 1963, and a 1967 cover story in the US magazine Surfer cemented his international reputation as a controversial commentator on the sport.
He edited Surf International and in 1970 co-founded Tracks, a ground-breaking, journalistic Australian surfing magazine that The Surfer’s Journal publisher Steve Pezman
called “maybe the hippest youth culture magazine being published in the world at that time”.
In 2013, the New York art publisher Rizzoli released A Golden Age: Surfing’s Revolutionary 1960s and ’70s, a comprehensive collection of Witzig’s photographs. In August 2014, the exhibition Arcadia opened at the Australian National Portrait Gallery in Canberra featuring over 40 photographs.
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