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‘Jake Phelps was abrasive, just like skateboarding’

Ed Templeton pays tribute — Thrasher’s Editor-in-Chief Jake Phelps, who died last week aged 56, was one of skateboarding’s most influential characters. Under his stewardship, the magazine and the brand it spawned became the summation of skateboarding’s commercially canny, fuck-you essence. Ed Templeton mourns and remembers.

  • Skate
  • Ed Templeton

Ed Templeton on Larry Clark's renegade style of photography

Kindred spirits — There is a lineage of photographers who shoot to shock, planting themselves in fringe-dwelling scenes with the eye of a lustful voyeur. Larry Clark was never one of them. His photographs of wayward teens bingeing on sex and drugs, and leaving 1960s America aghast, are moments that he lived. It’s in this brutal suburbia, in the faces of strung-out kids, that skateboarder Ed Templeton first realised that his own life could be a muse.

  • Magazine
  • Ed Templeton

Ed Templeton’s tips for overcoming fear as a self-taught photographer

Deadbeat Club: Zineophobia — To celebrate Zineophobia - the first UK show from Californian collective Deadbeat Club - we’re sitting down with all six photographers and breaking down what makes them tick. First in line is Ed Templeton: artist, photographer, Toy Machine founder, and the man who shoots Huntington Beach close to 365 days a year.

  • Photography
  • Andrea Kurland

Ed Templeton’s European photo diary

On tour with The Tempster — Ed Templeton shares the stories behind his five favourite photographs from his time in the UK and France.

  • Photography
  • HUCK HQ

Long Read: Ed Templeton’s Suburban Scenes

A day in Huntington Beach — Artist, photographer, skateboarder and chronicler of Southern California Ed Templeton gives Huck an access-all-areas insight into his creative world. Here is our four-part interview from The Ed Templeton Issue, guest edited by the Tempster himself, featuring his own artwork and iconic photography sitting alongside fresh illustrations, created exclusively for Huck.

  • Skate
  • Michael Fordham

What goes on behind closed doors in Southern California?

New show: Synthetic Suburbia — Skater, painter, social commentator Ed Templeton has a new solo show Synthetic Suburbia which renders the characters of Huntington Beach in acrylics.

  • Art
  • Robin Nierynck

Ed Templeton photos in new book Wayward Cognitions, like you've never seen them before

20 years of stray thoughts — A different side to the youth culture documentarian is revealed in stunning new book spanning his 20-year archive.

  • Photography
  • Shelley Jones

Words To Live By

Courtesy of Ed Templeton and friends. — Things we learned from re-reading Huck 45: The Ed Templeton Curated Issue.

  • Culture
  • Andrea Kurland

Huck's Best of the Week

Come Party With Us! — Join Huck at our Ed Templeton Issue LA launch party or the London premiere of Globe's Strange Rumblings.

  • Culture
  • HUCK HQ

Mike Mills

A History of Sadness — Mike Mills may be showing Hollywood how real films are made, but he still refuses to turn his back on the past.

  • Film
  • Adam Woodward

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