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, 2015
  • The State of Water, Radius Books, New Mexico, 2019.

    Collections

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