A visual journal of public life — ritual, persona and memory in New York and elsewhere.
Conceptual Projects
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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.
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Earworm
Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.
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.
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9/11 Memorial
A photographic study of how private grief is organized into public memory through ceremony, architecture and civic ritual.
Writing
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The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Manufactures Reality
Press photographs do not merely reflect the world. Through captions, professional codes, editorial routines and repetition, journalism turns situated choices about who is visible and…
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Mary Ellen Mark: The Ethics of Seeing
Mary Ellen Mark built her documentary practice through encounters that were embedded, revisited or carefully staged. Her subjects look back, pose, speak and change, but…
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The City as Living Archive
A city does not become an archive because it remembers everything. It becomes one through the fragments photographers select, caption, sequence and return to, each…
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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.