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}} Described as "Foto Freo Festival Guide"</ref> His photographs have appeared in ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''.<ref name="viibio">"[http://www.viiphoto.com/more-photographer.php?photographer=Adam%20Ferguson Biography of Adam Ferguson]", VII. Accessed 2010-02-09.</ref> |
}} Described as "Foto Freo Festival Guide"</ref> His photographs have appeared in ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''.<ref name="viibio">"[http://www.viiphoto.com/more-photographer.php?photographer=Adam%20Ferguson Biography of Adam Ferguson]", VII. Accessed 2010-02-09.</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Ferguson visited [[Churachandpur District]] in India's troubled [[Northeast India|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/10072/23922/1/54825_2.pdf|title=Photojournalism is not so much a vocation as a way of life|publisher=Griffith University|accessdate=2010-02-27}}</ref> Ferguson exhibited "Heroin in Manipur" at FotoFreo ([[Fremantle, Western Australia|Fremantle]]) in 2008.<ref name=FotoFreo /> |
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| ⚫ | 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]].<ref>"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/feb/12/photography-pressandpublishing?picture=359268343 World Press Photo Awards 2010]", ''The Guardian,'' 12 February 2010. Accessed 2010-02-12.</ref> |
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==Early Life== |
==Early Life== |
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Ferguson was born and grew up in [[New South Wales]], Australia. |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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| ⚫ | In 2004, Ferguson graduated with a Bachelor of Photography from [[Griffith University]]. After graduating, Adam worked as a deckhand, sailing through the Caribbean Central America and the Mediterranean to fund the beginning of his photographic career. Two years later in 2006, he moved to Paris to intern at [[VII Photo Agency|VII]].<ref name="viibio" /><ref>"[http://www.cdp.edu.au/cdp/conferences-and-events/speakers Speakers]" Centre of Documentary Photography, Griffith University. Speaker Bio.</ref> In May 2010 he was elected to the [[VII Photo Agency|VII]] Network. |
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| ⚫ | In 2009 he was featured by ''[[Photo District News]]'' as one of thirty "new and emerging photographers to watch".<ref>Conor Risch, "[http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/03/04/pdn-30-photographers-to-watch-2009/ PDN's 30 2009: Adam Ferguson]", PDN Online, 2 March 2009. Accessed 2010-02-09.</ref>. In August of 2009, he accompanied the Apache company to establish a combat-operations post in the [[Tangi Valley]] near [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]].<ref>Richard Lacayo, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1927284,00.html A Window on the War in Afghanistan]", ''Time,'' 12 October 2009. Accessed 2010-02-09.</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Ferguson visited [[Churachandpur District]] in India's troubled [[Northeast India|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/10072/23922/1/54825_2.pdf|title=Photojournalism is not so much a vocation as a way of life|publisher=Griffith University|accessdate=2010-02-27}}</ref> Ferguson exhibited "Heroin in Manipur" at FotoFreo ([[Fremantle, Western Australia|Fremantle]]) in 2008.<ref name=FotoFreo /> |
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| ⚫ | 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]].<ref>"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/feb/12/photography-pressandpublishing?picture=359268343 World Press Photo Awards 2010]", ''The Guardian,'' 12 February 2010. Accessed 2010-02-12.</ref> |
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==Personal Life == |
==Personal Life == |
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Revision as of 04:35, 23 June 2014
Adam Ferguson, born in Australia in 1978, is an Australian freelance photojournalist currently working out of New Delhi, India.[1] His photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Time, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and Chicago Tribune.[2]
Early Life
Ferguson was born and grew up in New South Wales, Australia.
Career
In 2004, Ferguson graduated with a Bachelor of Photography from Griffith University. After graduating, Adam worked as a deckhand, sailing through the Caribbean Central America and the Mediterranean to fund the beginning of his photographic career. Two years later in 2006, he moved to Paris to intern at VII.[2][3] In May 2010 he was elected to the VII Network.
In 2009 he was featured by Photo District News as one of thirty "new and emerging photographers to watch".[4]. In August of 2009, he accompanied the Apache company to establish a combat-operations post in the Tangi Valley near Kabul, Afghanistan.[5]
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.[6] Ferguson exhibited "Heroin in Manipur" at FotoFreo (Fremantle) in 2008.[1] 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.[7]
Personal Life
Examples of Ferguson's photographs
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
References
- ^ a b "FotoFreo Photographic Festival: Projections (FotoFreo 2008 Projections (Details): Adam Ferguson)". FotoFreo Inc. 2008-02-24. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2012-10-13. Described as "Foto Freo Festival Guide"
- ^ a b "Biography of Adam Ferguson", VII. Accessed 2010-02-09.
- ^ "Speakers" Centre of Documentary Photography, Griffith University. Speaker Bio.
- ^ Conor Risch, "PDN's 30 2009: Adam Ferguson", PDN Online, 2 March 2009. Accessed 2010-02-09.
- ^ Richard Lacayo, "A Window on the War in Afghanistan", Time, 12 October 2009. Accessed 2010-02-09.
- ^ "Photojournalism is not so much a vocation as a way of life" (PDF). Griffith University. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
- ^ "World Press Photo Awards 2010", The Guardian, 12 February 2010. Accessed 2010-02-12.
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