A Huck Podcast — Joining the Dots is a new Huck podcast. Each week DJ, filmmaker and subcultural superstar Don Letts sits down with a new guest to discuss their life and work. This week, he meets legendary skateboarder and artist Ed Templeton.
Written by: Michael Fordham/Benjamin Cook
Look Back Library — When Kevin Marks turned his skate archive into a free reading resource, it developed into a network of libraries determined to preserve skate culture, promote literacy and celebrate community.
Written by: Cian Traynor
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.
Written by: Ed Templeton
Hairdo of defiance — The cult photographer pays tribute to one of the most iconic punk signifiers of all time, sharing two-decades worth of images & a poetic personal essay.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Joining The Dots — In the latest instalment of the Spaces In-Between Podcast, the Rebel Dread sits down with the artist, photographer and skating pioneer to talk all things subcultural.
Written by: HUCK HQ
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.
Written by: Ed Templeton
Apt pupil — Ed Templeton gave a random fan the chance to become the visual voice of his skate brand, all because of two simple words: Fuck it.
Written by: Kevin Duffel
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. Next in line is Clint Woodside: film photographer, Deadbeat Club founder and the only East Coaster in the pack.
Written by: Andrea Kurland
Deadbeat Club: Zineophobia — To celebrate Zineophobia - the first UK show from Californian collective Deadbeat Club, presented by Huck and I.P.F - we’re sitting down with all six photographers and breaking down what makes them tick. Next in line is Grant Hatfield, whose colourful street scenes capture the beating heart of So-Cal culture.
Written by: Briony Cartmell
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.
Written by: Andrea Kurland
Flashback to 2008 — Eight years ago, on the eve of Obama's election, we asked five of our American counter-cultural heroes to tell us their hopes and fears for the future if the U.S. was really to elect its first black President. America delivered, but did Barack? Here's Kelly Slater, Adam Yauch, Ed Templeton, Stacy Peralta and Chuck D.
Written by: Tim Donnelly // Chloe McClosky
On tour with The Tempster — Ed Templeton shares the stories behind his five favourite photographs from his time in the UK and France.
Written by: HUCK HQ