Ed Templeton is known for his black-and-white photographs of the people and street life of Huntington Beach, California, intimate portraits of his wife and friends, and an understated suite of paintings focused on suburbia. As the artist explains, all of his subjects come from his own life: 'Everything I've ever shot has just been on the path that I've been on, be it skating or travel or street photography.' The environmental scenes created by Templeton are as much within the genre of portraiture as they are landscapes, neatly framing and supporting our perceptions of the bodily movement, habits, ambiguities, and our relations with the characters embodied within.

Text courtesy Roberts Projects.