Legendary Skate Photographer Tobin Yelland Documents 3 People Over Decades | + Carnie writes about it
An article about Tobin Yelland’s iconic photography written in the legendary pen of Dave Carnie. Yeah you know this one’s going to be good even though it sounds kinda boring. It covers the Big Brother magazine days, Julian Stranger, going bald in your teens, and much more.
Sample:
I found it interesting that Tobin went outside of himself to look into himself. As if he’s trying to see himself from someone else’s perspective… from “The Other’s” perspective. “In one of the photographs,” Tobin continued, “I’m looking into a mirror… and it was the first time I had ever taken acid… and I’m looking into this mirror trying to take a picture of my pupils being super dilated. I took that because I wanted to record it… I wanted to have this record of what it was like from that… I totally have memories from that morning… just like staying up all night and watching the sun come up and being kind of loopy and having these really weird words in my head, like Jabberwocky, and just being like, ‘What am I doing? I’m by myself! And I’m going to photograph myself in the mirror.’’’
Click to MONSTER CHILDREN for the feature on Tobin Yelland and his photos of 3 people spanning decades
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