Born in Philadelphia, PA in 1978.

An only child of divorced parents, his mom was a flight attendant, and Adam’s number one fan, and his father was a salesman and harbinger of made-up truths. With his mom’s job and being traded off between parents throughout the years, whether it was a cross-country flight or a halfway point dropoff along I-95, Adam has been staring through proverbial windows and trying to derive meaning from what he sees and experiences for as long as he can remember.

Like most people, his first memories of photography are family photos. His uncle would set the whole family up during holidays and reunions for group photos. Always the comedian, he would set up the camera, trigger his timer, and cartoonishly return to the group to make it in just in time. To this day, Adam isn’t sure that he has seen one of those photos, though what remains is the experience.

A self-described jack-of-all-trades, Adam does not embody or follow one niche. His work moves from heartbreaking, empty landscapes to contemporary architectural photo design to intimate and grounding portraiture to humanity-infused photojournalism and being deeply wrapped up in the art of noticing and the process of collecting.

Adam believes that his work, and that of most photography, is both a longing for universal truth and the prolonged witnessing of a funeral - of people, places, and moments that will eventually no longer exist. But in his prints, Adam aims to hold a feeling of the thing for us to witness and maybe hold and question and attempt to confirm or deny within ourselves. And in that feeling, perhaps recognize the self-portrait, yours and his, in every photograph - the flaws, lightness, fears, dreams, downfall, and metamorphosis. While not always technically proficient, Adam leans heavily on the belief shared more succinctly in the André Kertesz quote, “Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.”

Adam is immersed in ongoing projects that range from the curiosity and experience that is the American Carnival, the exploration of the journey versus the destination in a series titled There Was Only Ever One Way Out, and currently, the sequencing and soon-to-be moving into the printing of his first photobook.

Adam now lives in Weaverville, North Carolina, with his wife, Rebecca, their two kids, Benjamin and Jackson, and a host of pets.