
Ocean Front Property
- Publisher
- The Ice Plant / Graphical
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-0-9992655-6-7
- Specifications
- Book + audio experience
22.5 × 31.5 cm
98 pages
Swiss binding + 8 page supplement
52 color images + soundtrack (digital download or limited edition cassette)
Edition of 300 copies, 40 of which are a special edition
Designed by Nicolas Polli
Texts by Brad Feuerhelm and Ezekiel Honig
"I was in search of water and the effect its absence had on me," writes Mark Templeton about his second photobook. From that sense of absence and geographic isolation grew a book of colour photographs made entirely in landlocked Alberta, where the nearest ocean is a thousand kilometres away, and an audio experience, a soundtrack to the book. Rooted in the same longing for the imagined comfort of warm blue water, the two worlds form a mirage, a prism of banal surfaces, spaces and sonic textures. An eight-page supplement collects pairings of sound and image chosen by eight invited artists.