Ahead of this slew of European exhibits, we asked Templeton about The Swimming Pool series, how to make nudity comfortable, and being a woman in the street photography world. It’s safe to say that Brighton isn’t quite Huntington Beach, but no doubt the pair will capture its weirdest and most wonderful everyday moments nonetheless. While in London “Ed and I will be taking some day trips to beach towns, to check out some English piers,” she says. Later this month, Londoners can see works from What She Said – portraits of girls juxtaposed with excerpts from the photographer’s own teenage diaries – at a group show at 71A, alongside other artists who met through independent Zine imprint the Deadbeat Club, and from in late-May Templeton will also be showing at Photo London. It is also released as a glorious photo book, showing Templeton’s interests in other aspects of photography and presenting the body, while still being quintessentially Californian in aesthetic. This week her painterly, abstract portraits of the human subject go on display in exibition The Swimming Pool, which is taking place at Gallery Fifty One in Antwerp and will run until June 24.
This spring marks a busy moment for Templeton.
