Ed Templeton is an American artist, photographer and professional skateboarder based in Huntington Beach, California. A two-time world skateboarding champion, he founded the skateboard company Toy Machine in 1993 and still creates all of its graphics and artwork himself.
Alongside skating, he has built a celebrated art practice spanning street photography, painting, drawing and collage, capturing the beauty and banality of suburban life. His book Deformer won Best Book of the Year at the International Festival of Photography in Rome. He has published more than thirty books, from Teenage Smokers to the self-published zines he still makes today. He was featured in Posterzine issue 65.
