Brad Temkin


Brad Temkin is an American photographer. He is known for his photographs documenting the human impact on the landscape.

Career

Temkin has taught photography at Columbia College Chicago since 1984.
Temkin's first book, Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, was published in 2005. In 2009, he began a project entitled Rooftop, addressing what contemporary urban pioneers are doing to mitigate the consequences of non-renewable energy consumption and drawing attention to living architecture.
Temkin's works are included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Publications

Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens, Center for American Places/Columbia College, Chicago. 2005.Rooftop, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2015The State of Water, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2019.

Collections

Temkin's work is held in the following permanent public collections: