Sunday sentiments, as featured in American photographer Ed Templeton’s 1999 photo book Teenage Smokers. Like this languid lounger, Templeton is also a professional skater, notes Louise Benson in her recent feature on the cult publication for Elephant, and “has long documented the subcultures that emerge from this world in his native California.” It was while taking pictures at a skate park on Huntington Beach in Orange County that he first noticed the proliferation of adolescent smokers to whom he would soon turn his lens. Learn more about the series, and its brilliant encapsulation of the “conflicting ebb and flow of desire” experienced by so many teens, here.
