Visual Artist | Brooklyn, NYC

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Australian visual artist Adam Inglis reconceptualizes street photography through critical theory and psychoanalysis. His work seeks out spontaneous collisions – moments where vulnerability, unconscious symbolism, and performance intersect – to unlock the medium’s potential to examine the unstable construction of meaning.

Working openly and close to his subjects, Inglis foregrounds the interplay of awareness and instinct. This transparent approach generates images that oscillate between collaboration and observation, intentionally embodying the dynamics of seeing and being seen. This showcases the urban environment as a living archive of collective memory and psychological undercurrents.

Central to Inglis’s practice is the inherent instability of meaning. He explores how narratives emerge in the charged space between photographer, subject, and viewer. Informed by postmodernist thinkers who question perception, he constructs layered compositions that fracture familiar scenes, rejecting documentary pretense for a subtle, unsettling surrealism.

Embracing ambiguity, his images invite viewers to linger in uncertainty and fundamentally question reality’s assembly. Rather than claiming hidden truths, they trace the paradoxical convergence of perception, performance, and the real.