Adam Inglis

Visual Artist | Brooklyn, NYC

Adam Inglis is an Australian photographer working at the intersection of street practice, visual anthropology, and critical theory. His work interrogates urban dynamics through a post-ethical lens, rejecting documentary moralism (Sontag, Barthes) in favor of Baudrillardian fragmentation—where the photographer’s gaze becomes an auteur act of meaning-making.

Merging Jungian archetypes (the collective unconscious, shadow work) with poststructuralist psychogeography (Debord’s dérive), Inglis treats the city as a site of myth. Fleeting gestures and layered architectures reveal submerged narratives, with ambiguity embraced as methodology. His images resist didactic readings, prioritizing intuition, serendipity, and subjective memory.

Rejecting voyeuristic detachment, Inglis works in close proximity, using wide-angle lenses to foreground immediacy and the ethics of presence. His practice critiques disembodied observation, framing street encounters as spaces of mutual recognition rather than passive extraction.

Engaging Foucault’s theories on power and surveillance, Inglis challenges Sontag’s assertion of the photographer’s gaze as inherently exploitative. Instead, he posits the gaze as a reciprocal exchange—a shared space where subject and photographer co-create meaning.

Through this approach, Inglis reimagines street photography as a postmodern, post-Jungian praxis, expanding the artist’s role in shaping narrative.

Adam holds a BA in Media Studies (La Trobe University) and an MA in Journalism (Monash University). His 2016 thesis examined public photography ethics through semiotics and content analysis. He has also worked as a teaching assistant in Monash University’s Master of Journalism program.