In the mid 90’s Ed Templeton started documenting life around him. As a professional skateboarder Ed has been able to travel the world on skate tours, giving him the opportunity to photograph his vision of contemporary culture and life around him. Ed’s camera mainly points towards the people he encounters in his everyday life, seeking for truthful moments to capture.

Kids in Emerica is a tour video featuring Andrew Reynolds, Heath Kirchart, Tosh Townsend, Erik Ellington, Kevin Long, Chris Senn, Austin Stephens, Aaron Suski, Leo Romero, Bryan Herman, Braydon Szafranski, Ed Templeton and the rest of the Emerica team.

The most influential skater in the history of skateboarding hands down is Mark Gonzales. If you disagree with that then you’re wrong. You can pinpoint Mark back to everything, and know that Mark did it first. A, he did it first; and B, he did it like Mark, which is a really psychotic combo. He did it the best. Everything after was not the same. Everything was so all over the place. Look at Mark’s feet on his frontside ollies—nobody’s got that. It’s like his heels are one the board. It’s just the fucking greatest thing ever. -Jason Dill

We met up with Ed Templeton before the opening of his latest show in Copenhagen, "My soul is worried but not me", to talk about his carreer as a professional skateboarder and his other carreer as an artist. Interview by Per Andreasen. Camerawork by Morten Westh and Søren Tolshave.