Adam Ferguson (b.1978) is one of Australia’s most renowned photographers with a two-decade career spanning commercial commissions, photojournalism and fine art. He regularly contributes to The New York Times, TIME magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and National Geographic.
Ferguson is recipient of awards from Columbia University, World Press Photo, American Photography, Photo District News, The Overseas Press Club of America, National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery UK. In 2018 he was awarded Photographer of the Year by Photo District News, Freelance Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year International, and nominated for the World Press Photo of the Year. In 2022 the World Photography Organisation awarded him the prestigious Photographer of the Year for a series of collaborative portraits he made with migrants on the US-Mexico border.
Ferguson’s work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Photo 2024 Australia and Cortona on the Move International Photography Festival in Italy, among others.
In 2024, he published his first monograph, Big Sky (GOST Books, UK), a photographic survey of Australia’s heartland that re-examines archetypal Australian identity, positioning it within the complex realities of contemporary life in the Outback.
