Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton’s “Wires Crossed” pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton’s image-making from the last twenty-plus years.
For our May 2024 Aperture PhotoBook Club gathering, Ed Templeton and Aperture’s executive director Sarah Meister joined Aperture’s director of book sales and operations, Richard Gregg, and the book’s production manager, Thomas Bollier, to discuss the unique production process behind “Wires Crossed.”
Order “Wires Crossed” here: bit.ly/Ed-Templeton-Aperture
Join the Aperture PhotoBook Club and contribute to the conversations live: bit.ly/Aperture-PhotoBook-Club
This event was originally streamed on May 22, 2024. Support for the 2024 Aperture PhotoBook Club is generously provided by FotoFocus.
“Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed” was made possible, in part, with generous support from RVCA / Artist Network Program.
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Ed Templeton (born in Los Angeles, 1972) is a star skateboarder, entrepreneur, painter, and street photographer. He has published over twenty books of his photographs, not including the volumes of zines he has self-produced over the years. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Alleged Gallery, New York; Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles; Modern Art, London; and Aki-X Gallery, Tokyo, and in solo museum exhibitions at Museum Het Domein, Netherlands, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He is considered part of the Beautiful Losers, a group of artists who, in the 1990s, defined the high-brow/low-brow mix of graffiti, skate culture, and art.