BIOGRAPHY

Adam Ferguson was born in 1978 and grew up in New South Wales, Australia. He graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Photography from Australia's Griffith University and was subsequently awarded a peace scholarship to travel to Cambodia. After completing an internship with VII Photo Agency in Paris and working as an assistant to VII member Gary Knight in 2006, he moved to New Delhi, India, to work as an independent photographer covering South Asia.

In the last three years Adam's work has explored the social tensions that undermine images of an economically booming India, Pakistan as it grapples with poverty and political insecurity, and the military occupation of Afghanistan.

Adam's photographs have been published internationally by Time Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Stern, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, UNICEF and Human Rights Watch, among others.

In 2009 he was selected as one of the Photo District News 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch and joined the VII Mentor Program. In 2010 Pictures of the Year International awarded Adam a News Picture Story 1st Prize for his coverage of the Afghan elections, an Award of Excellence for his coverage of U.S. Infantry troops in Afghanistan's Wardak province, and a Spot News 3rd prize for a photograph of the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Kabul, which also received a 1st Prize at the prestigious World Press Photo Awards.