A visual journal of public life — ritual, persona and memory in New York and elsewhere.
Street Archive
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Pairs
Visual doubling as a lens on identity and similarity.
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The Father
Paternal archetypes in contemporary urban life.
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The Lover
Love, desire, romance, and vulnerability flowing through the city.
Documentary
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Free Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione’s federal arraignment, capturing supporters, critics, costumes, protests, and media spectacle outside court as the high-profile case evolves toward trial.
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Fleet Week: A Maritime Tradition
How military service members navigate between institutional authority and personal freedom during their temporary immersion in New York City’s civilian life.
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Pride in Washington Square Park
The intersection of celebration and activism, exploring how expressions of identity transform within increasingly liberal and commercialized spaces.
Recent Writing
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Mary Ellen Mark: The Ethics of Seeing
Mary Ellen Mark became the cartographer of intimacy within instability. Her photographs are less dispatches than allegories, balancing technical precision with an unflinching moral gaze.
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The City as Living Archive
The city, as I read it, is a living archive—messy, polyphonic, and resistant to closure.
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality is a myth. Every photograph is already a construction. It’s a comforting illusion to think otherwise.
Adam Inglis is an Australian visual artist based in New York City, working across street photography and documentary. He approaches urban space as both social theatre and psychological landscape, where behaviour, cultural codes and unconscious dynamics intersect.