About Adam

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Adam Chapin was born in  November of 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Adam's interest in photography started in 1997, but it was not until 2012 that he began taking it seriously. Adam is primarily self-taught, save for a few workshops, and studying some of the greats such as Duane Michals, Helen Levitt, and Danny Lyon, to name a few. Adam is not a master of any one style; he's continually exploring what story he's pulled by or into and working from his tool belt to bring his inspiration to life. Sharing his sense of quiet and solitude and the tangible feelings within those is what Adam strives for in every image. Adam shoots mainly digitally and primarily in medium format, sometimes from his feet and sometimes from the driver's seat of his car. Adam photographed weddings for fourteen years and has just recently stepped away to focus on the subjects and personal projects that genuinely move him. Adam has been a part of multiple group gallery exhibitions as well as online exhibitions from The Center For Fine Art Photography in Colorado to Left Space in San Francisco and Black Bird in North Carolina starting in 2018 and going to the present. Adam lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife, two boys and a few dogs and cats.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 2025 Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art (online), Carmel, California March 29 - May 4

First Look: A Second Glance, Panopticon Gallery, Rockland, Massachusetts, February 5 - August 5

Portraiture: Unveiling Identity, Photoplace Gallery (online), Middlebury, Vermont, January 30 - February 28

Stay Strong, Black Bird, Asheville, NC, December 7 - February 6

2024 Something Personal, APA San Francisco - Left Space, San Francisco, California, November 23

Movement, Decagon Gallery (online), Brooklyn, New York, October 1 - October 31

2018 Portraiture 2018, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, February 2 - March 21

Selected Interviews and Talks

2023 Meet Adam Chapin, Canvas Rebel, https://canvasrebel.com/meet-adam-chapin/

Professional Associations

American Photographic Artists National

Center for Photographic Arts