Visual Artist | New York City

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Adam Inglis is an Australian visual artist based in New York City since 2014. Working as a documentarian, photojournalist, and street photographer, he explores the human condition through layered compositions that reveal urban spaces as both social theater and psychological landscape.

Inglis photographs openly at close proximity to subjects with wide angle lenses, positioning himself as both participant and observer in the scenes he encounters. This transparent approach creates a very specific visual and social dynamic that’s central to the work and allows him to capture moments where people’s conscious performances meet their unconscious expressions—revealing through gesture, appearance, and behavior — what words often conceal.

While maintaining the candid quality of street photography, he will often interact with subjects and allow scenes to develop naturally. This method creates a unique tension in his images, where subjects oscillate between awareness of the camera and instinctive action. Rather than claiming documentary objectivity, Inglis embraces photography’s constructed nature, blurring the boundaries between collaboration and observation. 

Drawing on his academic interests in psychoanalytic and post-structuralist theory, Inglis reads urban environments as living archives where individual behaviors collide with collective social codes. His work interrogates how meaning emerges in the spaces between photographer and subject, and later between viewer and image.

The resulting photographs invite viewers to linger in uncertainty, moving beyond simple documentation or aesthetic pleasure. They trace the complex ways we perform identity in public spaces, offering a contemporary reimagining of street photography that questions both the content of vision and the act of looking itself.

Rooted equally in photographic tradition and critical theory, Inglis’s practice transforms the city into a philosophical apparatus—one that reveals the complex relationships between individual psychology and social performance that define modern urban life.