Inspired Photography by Adam

Architecture. Events and festivals. Theatre and people.

Prestige buildings from London to Cambridge. Official photographer to Firstlight. Festival work at Latitude. The kind of work that only comes from knowing when to wait, when to move, and when to just press the shutter.
The full body of work lives here.

Portraits Music Events Theatrical Landscape Street Architecture Food Commercial

Portraits

Individual character, captured honestly. Whether on location or in a considered setting, I look for the moment when someone forgets the camera is there. That's the one worth keeping.

Kitty-May, portrait shot for album

George Szirtes, poet reading for Firstlight Festival

Helen Barnes drinking her cup of tea

Tom Appleton, portrait shots for his website

Tom Appleton, portrait shots in café

David Porter playing the harmonica

Music Events

From the main stage to the wings, music photography is about energy, light and split-second timing. Latitude, Firstlight and beyond: festivals where anything can happen and usually does.

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Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, motion blur

The Darkness at Latitude

Nile Rodgers at Latitude

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

Firstlight Festival, sculpture by Laurence Edwards

Rick Astley at Latitude

Chic at Latitude

Duran Duran at Latitude

Kitty-May at the Fiddler's Elbow, London

Kasabian at Latitude

Billy Bragg at Latitude

The Kaiser Chiefs at Latitude

Fatboy Slim at Latitude

Theatrical Events

Stage work demands patience and instinct in equal measure. Every performance is different, the light is rarely ideal, and the best shots are the ones nobody planned for.

Two actors, dark stage

Moment of anguish

Close encounter

Medieval messenger

The tavern scene

Raised stick, stand-off

Landscape

Slower work. Finding the right light and the right angle, and being prepared to wait for both. Landscape photography rewards patience more than any other discipline.

Rome, Tiber crossing

Misty canal

Dawn mist over fields

Norwegian fjord

Bergen at dusk

Sculpture at sunset

Street Photography

Unposed, unrehearsed and entirely real. Street work is the purest form of the craft. You can't direct it, you can only be ready for it.

London Bridge, wet road

Pink umbrella, Millennium Bridge

Rainy night, New York

Wet umbrella, city lights

Two on a bench

Smoke and sky, Rome

Orange gown, New York

Charles Bridge at night

Prague nocturne

Man and dog, reflected

Diversion ends

Café wall, London

Roman alley

Under the bridge

Cambridge punting

Listening, open air

Architecture

Buildings are portraits of the people who made them. I look for geometry, shadow and the quiet drama of a structure doing exactly what it was designed to do, and I try to get there before anyone else clutters the frame.

City skyline, night crossing

The Painted Hall

The spiral staircase

Architecture

Food Photography

Chocolate worked by hand, ingredients placed with intention, textures that stop the scroll. Food photography is about making people feel something before they taste anything. I work closely with makers and producers to find the shot that does the craft genuine justice.

Five painted chocolate domes

Bon bons, dark and galaxy

Hunters red box, spring flowers

Hunters black box, truffles

Spiced cocktail, chilli rim

Hunters aprons on the hook

Fresh herbs, kitchen windowsill

Oven dial, close up

Commercial Photography

Business events, networking rooms and conference stages. The moments that matter in a professional context are easy to miss and impossible to recreate. I work quickly and unobtrusively to capture the energy, the speakers and the connections that make an event worth attending.

Commercial