Check Out Tate Canyon’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tate Canyon.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
When I was little I was recording everything. I had a YouTube channel at a young age. Posted everything and had a good viewership. I went on a trip to LA with a friend to record a video at the time and took photos on 35mm throughout the trip as well. I had taken some film photos beforehand but this was my first real trip experimenting with it. These photos were shit. We didn’t know how to post them online so I opened up photoshop and started editing. It didn’t look like a post, it looked like a magazine. So that’s exactly what I ended up doing. I just reverse-engineered a magazine from random photos we took and wrote about the stories behind those photos. We called it “GOOD TIMES” and made around 10 magazines in the span of a year in 2018. Every magazine was shot on film and we wrote about the photos we took that month. After ending the magazine a year in, I started making clothes and attending college in San Fransisco. I had been still in the scene taking photos and making shit but never really put anything out until the pandemic when everything changed for me. I quit school, moved to LA, and started putting my work out there. After a year of living in Los Angeles, I release my first issue of my new magazine “CRISIS”, it covered myself, all the time I spent in the Bay Area, and also the LA scene that I’ve seen early on while I stayed on Melrose and Fairfax. A few months later I released issue two and then issue three a few weeks ago. This year has been really dope and I can’t wait to build the magazine more and see where the art shit takes me.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Like I said, back in the day, I had a viewership. My social media was deleted in 2019. I had to start from zero and start over. I’ve funded every project so far myself and have managed every project alone, for the most part. I still feel like I have something to prove so I feel like I still have more road to see but in the grand scheme of things, I guess it hasn’t been smooth. That’s just life though. I’m not like other magazines. I don’t have a sponsor or a school to fund me. Distributors want nothing to do with me. So yeah, it’s all on me to make this shit happen.

What was your favorite childhood memory?
Not my favorite but this sticks out to me. Was just talking about this the other day… My dad sometimes when he’d get home from work late at night, he’d surprise my little sister and I with something from the gas station or grocery store. Some random candy or something. One time he told us to get in the room and turn the lights off so we could see what it was in the dark? I was confused but he was hyping this up. Turned the lights off and looked in his hand and it was this candy bar with a glow-in-the-dark Shrek on it. Loved that movie back then, I went insane. This was when I was dumb young but I remember this perfectly.

Contact Info:

• Website: tatecanyon.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/tatecanyon
• Youtube: YouTube.com/@1988califonria
• SoundCloud: Soundcloud.com/1988california
• Other: 1988california.com

Image Credits
@allisxngabriella