From skate culture and American suburbia to a new campaign for Bershka and Aries, Ed Templeton has spent decades photographing the people, places and fleeting moments that define youth. Now, his world arrives in Barcelona with Tomorrow Never Comes.
For Ed Templeton, taking photographs has never really been about standing outside and looking in. It started with skateboarding, documenting the people and places that surrounded him, and gradually became a way of understanding the world. Decades later, that instinct is still there. “For me, it’s an obsession at this point. I don’t know what drives it, but when I’m out in the streets, I just want to capture things,” he says.
That instinct is precisely what makes Templeton such a natural fit for Bershka and Aries. In February 2026, the photographer travelled to Huntington Beach, California, to shoot the Eδέμ campaign, the latest chapter in the collaboration between the British label Aries and Bershka. Rather than ending with the campaign, the encounter became the starting point for something bigger: Tomorrow Never Comes, an exhibition that places the new images alongside key works from Templeton’s wider photographic practice.
Presented at Espai Metrònom in Barcelona from 10 to 20 September 2026, the exhibition is developed in collaboration with Foto Colectania and curated by its director, Elisa Medde. And, importantly, admission is completely free.
For Templeton, bringing the project to Barcelona feels particularly personal. His relationship with the city goes back years, shaped by his time travelling and skateboarding here. “I have a big connection with Barcelona through the years, skateboarding here a lot,” he explains. “So to be able to bring it here, in this beautiful building, and share it with the people of Barcelona is super nice.”
The title Tomorrow Never Comes comes from a simple idea: being present rather than constantly looking ahead. “It’s very easy to be thinking only about today and not tomorrow. That’s why Tomorrow Never Comes,” Templeton says. It is an idea that feels particularly fitting for a body of work so concerned with adolescence, youth and the passage of time.
At the centre of the exhibition is Wires Crossed, Templeton’s long-running project documenting more than two decades of skate culture. Created during his years as a professional skateboarder, the series moves beyond the spectacle of skating to capture everything that happens around it: friendships, travel, hotel rooms, airports, vans and those seemingly insignificant moments between one place and another.
“People miss that lifestyle means you’re in a hotel, you’re in an airport, you’re in a van driving across the country most of the time,” he recalls. “And so just the boring part… those ordinary moments are super interesting to me because that’s a lot of times when people are their most authentic self.”
That way of looking is fundamental to Templeton’s photography. A person reading a newspaper on a beach, an unusual hairstyle, a stranger caught in the right light — seemingly insignificant details can become the image. It is perhaps why his photographs feel so intimate: they aren’t necessarily looking for the big moment, but for everything that happens around it.
The exhibition places Wires Crossed alongside photographs from Suburbia, Templeton’s exploration of American adolescence, as well as more recent images made in Barcelona and photographs created in Huntington Beach for the Eδέμ campaign x Bershka x Aries. Together, they reveal a photographic gaze that has remained remarkably consistent across different cities, decades and contexts.
This dialogue between Templeton’s personal archive and his work for Bershka and Aries is one of the most interesting aspects of the project. Rather than treating the campaign as something separate from his artistic practice, Tomorrow Never Comes allows the two to sit side by side.
“Trying to find the echoes between the Bershka work and my own photography was really interesting,” Templeton says. “Trying to find the similarities and how each one can speak to each other.”
For Bershka, the collaboration represents another step in its ongoing connection to contemporary youth culture and Barcelona’s creative community. Eδέμ is the latest chapter of its collaboration with Aries, the British brand founded by Sofia Prantera, bringing together Aries’ distinctive creative universe with Bershka’s focus on the codes, attitudes and energy of a new generation.
Photographed by Templeton in Huntington Beach, Eδέμ takes inspiration from the myth of Adam and Eve, using the departure from Eden as a metaphor for adolescence, growing up and the desire to discover what exists beyond the familiar. The campaign unfolds across two chapters, moving from a lighter, more idyllic vision in its first drop towards a darker and more charged second chapter. Together, they explore identity, desire, self-reinvention and the search for meaning.
Templeton’s approach keeps the campaign grounded in something much more immediate. Instead of constructing a distant idea of youth, his photographs find it in real landscapes, characters and everyday situations — the same elements that have shaped his work for decades.
For Templeton, photography has always been part of a larger creative conversation. He began shooting skateboarding simply because he wanted to document the culture he belonged to. Eventually, the camera travelled with him everywhere. “I picked up the camera for skateboarding, to shoot skateboarders, and then I started shooting everything,” he explains.
His photography and painting now inform one another, with the different parts of his practice constantly feeding back into each other. And technology hasn’t changed that impulse either. Templeton still shoots both film and with his iPhone, fascinated by the fact that everyone now carries a camera in their pocket.
“I thought maybe we would lose the desire to shoot or something, but it hasn’t really stopped,” he says. “I still enjoy shooting and sharing, and I like that conversation.”
“My photograph is the first part. And then when the viewer comes in and sees all the work, that’s when the conversation gets complete — when they have some kind of opinion about it or they get a feeling from it.”
Maybe that’s also what makes Templeton’s work endure. His photographs don’t try to explain youth from a distance; they preserve its textures, its awkwardness, its freedom and its contradictions. And in bringing together images made decades apart with a new generation of photographs for Bershka and Aries, Tomorrow Never Comes becomes less a retrospective than an ongoing conversation between past and present.
ED TEMPLETON — TOMORROW NEVER COMES
10–20 SEPTEMBER 2026
ESPai Metrònom, Barcelona
FREE ADMISSION
In collaboration with Foto Colectania and Curated by Elisa Medde, Director of Foto Colectania.
The exhibition coincides with the launch of the second chapter of Aries × Bershka Eδέμ on 11 September, moving the collaboration into a darker and more charged territory while continuing to explore identity, desire, self-reinvention and the search for meaning.
