Adam Inglis
Visual Artist | Brooklyn, NYC
Adam Inglis is an Australian lens-based visual artist working at the intersection of street practice, visual anthropology, and critical theory.
His images frame the city as a mythic space, where fleeting gestures and layered architectures blur the boundaries between constructed perception and collective unconscious.
Working with wide-angle lenses in close proximity to subjects, Inglis replaces documentary pretense with embodied complicity—each encounter a performed negotiation rather than observed truth.
In this liminal zone, he redefines ethical engagement through fragmentation and intimate encounter, treating photography as a performance of reality—one where hyperreal dissolves into collaborative act.
Here, subject and photographer co-author the image’s narrative, transforming the photographic moment into an auteur’s alchemy: where archetypes surface through deliberate destabilization.
This approach reinvents street photography as postmodern, post-Jungian praxis. By merging psychogeographic drift with archetypal symbolism, his work reveals urban landscapes as stages where contemporary disintegration and primal narratives collide.
What emerges is neither pure simulation nor hidden truth, but the electric tension of reality performed: a Baudrillardian pact where photographer, subject, and city become co-conspirators in meaning’s perpetual unraveling.
Adam holds a BA in Media Studies (La Trobe University) and an MA in Journalism (Monash University). His 2016 thesis examined public photography ethics through semiotics and content analysis. He has also worked as a teaching assistant in Monash University’s Master of Journalism program.
