Chad Temples
is a creative director, photographer, and aspiring freestyle canoeist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

That’s me. I’m him.

Once, I was driving home late at night on the back roads of rural Georgia, when out of nowhere a large black helicopter landed in the middle of a soybean field. A shadowy figure wearing nothing but a raccoon skin cap exited the aircraft and skipped like a schoolboy into the oak trees. I often wonder where he is now. Anyhoo! 

I have a real soft spot for pristinely dumb ideas and fried soft-shell crabs. When I’m not working and also when I am, I spend my time raising three kids and tending to a growing collection of decrepit film cameras. 

Wanna work together, or discuss the sublime perfection of the REM record Automatic for the PeopleBeep me.

Some things I’ve enjoyed lately:

︎Welcome to Pine Point
︎B*tch I’m Lugubrious
︎Judith Joy Ross
︎Blowback
︎Steven Segal SNL Supercut







Chad Temples
is a writer, creative director, photographer, and aspiring freestyle canoeist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

That’s me. I’m him.

Once, driving home late at night on the back roads of rural Georgia, I watched a large black helicopter land in the middle of a soybean field. A man wearing nothing but a raccoon skin cap exited the aircraft and skipped like a schoolboy into the darkness. I often wonder where he is now. Anyhoo! 

I have a soft spot for pristinely dumb ideas and fried soft-shell crabs. When I’m not working and also when I am, I spend my time raising three kids and tending to a growing collection of decrepit film cameras. 

Wanna work together, or discuss the sublime perfection of the REM record Automatic for the People?

Beep me.

Some things I’ve enjoyed lately:

︎Welcome to Pine Point
︎B*tch I’m Lugubrious
︎Judith Joy Ross
︎Blowback
︎Steven Segal SNL Supercut







A Moving Portrait of Pullman

To celebrate decades of collaboration and entrepreneurship  between U.S. Bank and the neighborhood of Pullman on Chicago’s Southside, we linked up with Director and Southside Native Rodney Lucas to create a moving portrait of the community, using actors, non-actors, and crew from the neighborhood itself.

I also photographed the production, shadowing the goated Brendan Carroll, which you can see here.

Partner ︎︎︎ Daniel Alves
Director ︎︎︎ Rodney Lucas
DP ︎︎︎ Kassim Norris
Client: U.S. Bank