Wayne Levin

Wayne Levin, born in Los Angeles in 1945, is a Hawaii-based photographer renowned for his black-and-white underwater images of marine life, surfers, and ships, as well as documentaries of Kalaupapa leprosy settlement and civil rights involvement. After early studies at Brooks Institute, civil rights work, and Navy service, he earned a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 and MFA from Pratt Institute in 1982, settling in Hawaii since 1968 to focus on oceanic and landscape photography, publishing books like Kalaupapa: A Portrait (1989) and Through a Liquid Mirror (1998).