Ed Templeton - #2 City Confessions, London - 2021

“City Confessions #2 London is a mostly recent study of the city of London. Although some photos in this book date back more than 20 years, most were taken during the last decade on numerous trips. Since the mid-1990s, once or twice a year I find myself in London for a few days or weeks at a time and end up going on long walks taking photos with my Leica. The images in this book were chosen to highlight a particular tone of London that I have always found interesting: moments of exhaustion, furtive glances and subtle gestures in the center of a densely populated city as swarms of people perform the ceremony of passing another day ”.
-ed templeton

The City Confessions series is a collaboration between photographer Ed Templeton and Tokyo-based book publisher SuperLabo.
Each volume features a photographic story about a specific city that Templeton has spent a lot of time working on over several years. The series will be released periodically and then put together as a set. Although the work is often documentary in nature, these books are not intended to be a complete documentation of a city, but rather a visual diary describing the rhythms of an urban center as Templeton wanders the streets making photographic annotations on the social fabric, the architecture and details of interest. Each issue features a specific edit and sequence of photographs that offer Templeton's observation of a city and the humans that exist within it, like a film set on location where scenes are set against the city's known landmarks. in the background.