Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed

This captivating book, part memoir and part documentary, chronicles the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding from the 1990s to the early 2000s. Ed Templeton, a two-time World Skateboarding champion and celebrated photographer, provides an insider's look through photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other ephemera from his journals. Wires Crossed captures the raw energy and creative spirit of Templeton's image-making over the past twenty years. It reflects the unique aesthetic of the skateboarding world he helped shape, offering a glimpse into a subculture in the making. The book explores Templeton's journey as an artist and the lives of professional skateboarders as they crisscross the globe, reveling in their rock star-like status and searching for new terrain to skate.