Visual Artist | Brooklyn, NYC

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Australian photographer Adam Inglis works within the tradition of street photography, while drawing from an academic background in critical theory, media studies, and psychoanalysis. His work explores spontaneous collisions in everyday life – moments where vulnerability, unconscious symbolism, and performance intersect.

Inglis works openly and close to his subjects, capturing moments where awareness and instinct intertwine. This transparent approach creates images that hover between collaboration and candid observation, reflecting the complex dynamics of seeing and being seen.

Informed by postmodernist thinkers who question perception and meaning, Inglis constructs layered compositions that fracture familiar scenes, rejecting documentary neutrality in favor of a subtle, unsettling surrealism. Frozen gestures become open-ended inquiries: Who is looking? Who is seen? What remains hidden? His work foregrounds the inherent instability and construction of meaning, exploring how narratives emerge in the charged space between photographer, subject, and viewer.

For Inglis, urban and everyday environments act as a living archive of collective experience, echoing underlying psychological and cultural currents. His photography embraces ambiguity, inviting viewers to linger in uncertainty and question how reality is assembled. Rather than claiming hidden truths, his images explore the often paradoxical convergence of perception, performance, and the real.