The name Ben Jobe is legendary in UK skateboarding history.

But Ben Jobe is not his real name.

His real name is Andrew Makkonen.

C-Type print of Andrew Makkonen AKA UK Ben Jobe skateboarding at the Southbank in the 1990s.

If you look closely in the background of this picture you can spot a celebrity cameo from Tom Penny. There are many more faces back there as well.

Image originally used in very early issue of Sidewalk Magazine in the mid 1990s.

Subsequently used in Long Live Southbank book in 2014 and at the recent Read and Destroy Magazine Exhibition at Coal Drops Yard in London.