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Adam Ferguson, born in Australia in 1978, is an Australian freelance photojournalist currently working out of New Delhi, India. His photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Time, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and Chicago Tribune.

Early life
Ferguson was born and grew up in New South Wales, Australia

Career
In 2004, Adam graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Photography. After graduating, he worked as a deckhand, sailing through the Caribbean, Central America and the Mediterranean to fund the beginning of his photographic career.

From 2007 to 2011, Adam lived in New Delhi, India, where he photographed social tensions within the world's largest democracy. He travelled to Pakistan to capture the countries constant struggle with poverty and political insecurity by embarking on his most in-depth photographic project: an exploration into the corners of the U.S - led military occupation of Afghanistan

When in Pakistan, Ferguson was at the heart of a suicide bombing where he captured one of his best photos to date. While at the heart of the fire, he saw different explosions coming out from different buildings and different people being dragged out as well. His fear didn't stop him though. In one of the local Australian Newspapers, The Guardian, Adam writes "It was one of those situations where you have to put fear aside and focus on the job at hand: to watch the situation and document it." He captured a remarkable photo of a woman being escorted out of a building that was said to have epitomised the whole mood. She was in the centre of the horrible crime. Her facial expression, and whole mood was captured in the shot. But there Adam was, he took the photo. After winning an award for this photo, Adam speaks about the experience saying "I felt sad. People were congratulating me and there was a celebration over this intense tragedy that I had captured. I reconciled it by deciding that more people see a story when a photographer's work is decorated."

In 2009 he was featured by Photo District News as one of thirty "new and emerging photographers to watch". In August 2009, he accompanied the Apache company to establish a combat-operations post in the Tangi Valley near Kabul, Afghanistan.

Ferguson visited Churachandpur District in India's troubled north east twice in 2007 as a HIV program officer, where media access for foreign journalists is usually restricted, with an NGO working with injecting drug users. Meeting youth battling heroin addiction on the streets and in rehabilitation centres, people living with HIV contracted through drug use, and families struggling internally with members using heroin, he documented the lives devastated by Manipur's heroin trade. Ferguson exhibited "Heroin in Manipur" at FotoFreo (Fremantle) in 2008. Ferguson won the first prize in the spot news singles category of the World Press Photo Awards 2010 for a photograph taken after a suicide bombing in Kabul.

In 2013, Adam was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald discussing his time in Iraq. Ferguson will also exhibiting his work at an outdoor installation exhibition under the Cahill Express Way at Circular Quay as a featured part of the Reportage Festival in that same year. He was along side legendary photographer James Nachtwey in sharing their work in the exhibition. Adam's ability to showcase different perspective of lights and space is what makes him one of the emerging photographers of our time.

Awards and Honours
2014- Shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography

2011- 1st Place News Story Multimedia, Pictures of the Year International (Witness to the Pity of War for TIME)

2010- 1st Place Spot News, World Press Photo (Kabul Bombing, Afghanistan for The New York Times)

2010- Professional Award, Australian Reportage Photo Festival (Afghanistan for TIME)

2010- Participant, 17th World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass

2010- Photo District News Photo Annual (Afghanistan for TIME)

2010- 1st Prize News Picture Story, Pictures of the Year International (Afghanistan)

2010- 3rd Prize Spot News, Pictures of the Year International (Kabul Bombing, Afghanistan for The Times)

2010- Award of Excellence, Pictures of the Year International (Afghanistan for TIME)

2009- Selected, Photo District News 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch

Main Solo Exhibitions:

2013- Iraq's Legacy, Reportage Festival of Documentary Photography, Sydney, Australia

Main Group Exhibitions:

2012- WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Collections:

Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Adam Ferguson
This page was a draft for Adam Ferguson (photographer), an article that now exists. As the presence of a draft here was potentially confusing, I've commented out the text. You're free to resuscitate it, but if you want to do so it would be better if you did so in User:Tasha13260363/Draft and also disposed of it when it was no longer of immediate use to you. -- Hoary (talk) 21:58, 11 October 2014 (UTC)