Essentials: Tobin Yelland

No new name to skateboarding-documentary, Tobin Yelland published his first photograph in Thrasher magazine at age 15. A year later, Yelland shot his first advertisement for Venture Trucks, and his career in skateboarding film has snowballed ever since. Thirty years on, Yelland continues to steadily document the existence of youth culture from behind the deftness of his lens, capturing the works of creatives — some of who have fallen into the befitting term of  ”kidulthood.” Intrigued by such identities, Yelland teamed up with Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard to create Beautiful Losers, a captivating, independent documentary that focus on the careers of artists — such as Harmony Krorine, Stephen Powers II, Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee and Ed Templeton — who since the ’90s have been pursuing art through DIY aesthetics. We caught up with Yelland at the House of Vans in Seoul where he was running a zine-making workshop. Amid learning about the roots of street culture through his portfolio of photos, Yelland shared with us his travel Essentials. Here, he lists out a number of his favorite zines alongside the tools needed for him to hone his craft.