Full Name Adam Ferguson Name Adam Ferguson | Known for Photography | |
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Born October 1978 Sydney Awards World Press Photo Award for Spot News | ||
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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.
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- In the picture afghanistan with adam ferguson
- Where stars meet oceans adam ferguson
- Early life
- Career
- Awards and honours
- Solo
- Group
- Collections
- References
Where stars meet oceans adam ferguson
Early life
Ferguson was born and grew up in New South Wales, Australia.
Career
In 2004, Ferguson 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, Ferguson lived in New Delhi, India, where he photographed social tensions within the world's largest democracy. He travelled to Pakistan to capture the country's 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 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. Ferguson 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." His photo of a woman being escorted out of a building was said to have epitomised the whole mood. She was in the centre of the crime. Her facial expression and whole mood was captured in the shot. After winning an award for this photo, Ferguson said "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 twice in 2007 visited Churachandpur District in India's troubled north east, where media access for foreign journalists is usually restricted, as a HIV program officer with an NGO working with injecting drug users. Meeting young people battling heroin addiction on the streets and in rehabilitation centres, people living with HIV contracted through drug use, and families struggling 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, Ferguson was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald discussing his time in Iraq. Ferguson also exhibited his work at an outdoor installation exhibition under the Cahill Express Way at Circular Quay as a featured part of the Reportage Festival the same year. He was alongside photographer James Nachtwey in sharing their work in the exhibition. In 2017, Ferguson returned to his native Australia for a project in partnership with The New York Times, photographing the Australian outback, particularly Aboriginal communities, in a series titled "Through the Outback".