2022 Archives - Adam Inglis

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo After Dark

A nocturnal street photography study of desire, labor and intimacy across Love Hotel Hill, Golden Gai, Ni-chōme and Kabukichō.
Public Ritual

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.
Public Ritual

J’Ouvert: Caribbean Identity and Culture in Brooklyn

Chronicling Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert festival as a site where cultural identity materializes through collective ritual.
Myth, Symbol & Persona

The Father

Paternal archetypes in contemporary urban life.
Myth, Symbol & Persona

The Lover

Love, desire, romance, and vulnerability flowing through the city.
Body & Gesture

Earworm

Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.
Body & Gesture

Nailshop

Fingernails as sites of evolution, culture, and public ritual.
Body & Gesture

Hair

Hair explored as a site where personal identity intersects with public space.
Myth, Symbol & Persona

Puer Aeternus

A meditation on the desire to keep childhood’s freedom alive.
Body & Gesture

Oral Intervention

Fleeting, intimate gestures of touching mouths in public spaces.
Body & Gesture

Intimate Intervention

Gestures of touch transforming shared environments into sites of intimacy.
Body & Gesture

A Lungful of Air

How substances shape the atmosphere of the city and the psyche of its inhabitants
Urban Ecologies

Floral Footpath

Flowers as cultural messengers and moving gestures through the city.
Urban Ecologies

Planted Matter

Metropolitan life through everyday acts of botanical transportation and care.
Signs, Gaze & Simulation

Psychic City

The eye as a conduit between perception and the city.
Signs, Gaze & Simulation

Red Signified

This work interrogates red as urban semiotics’ most visceral signifier—a color that straddles raw perception and coded meaning.