About Adam
Adam Chapin was born in November of 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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, as well as more contemporary artists such as Bryan Schutmaat, Mark Power, and Alessandra Sanguinetti to name a few. Adam is not a master of any one style; he's continually exploring what feeling he is pulled by or into. Adam's portraiture, street photography, and documentary work explores his always expanding curiosity of the human condition, focusing on who we are when we may think no one sees us. Adam shoots mainly digitally and primarily in medium format, sometimes from his feet and sometimes from the driver's seat of his car. Beginning in 2018, Adam has been a printed in a few publications, a part of multiple group gallery exhibitions, and online exhibitions from The Center For Fine Art Photography in Colorado to Left Space in San Francisco and Black Bird in North Carolina. 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
Publications
2025 Shots Magazine, Issue No. 168, PORTRAITS, pp. 13 & 41, Fall 2025
An Artful Life: Parker Pfister Leads With Curiosity, by Amanda Arnold, Professional Photographer, p.70, August 2025
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