BLOG of Photographer Adam Amengual

For more of my work check out my portfolio site: www.adamamengual.com or my other blog: a visual map of my life www.wandering-wayfarer.com and my instagram var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-31639809-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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My portrait of @nickfouquet got picked up for @swissairlines ’s first class Mag.

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Recent #BloombergBusinessweek cover story I shot spotted at airport in Philly. Thanks to Diana and Clinton for the assignment!

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LikeShow week 17 / 2015

SLKTR’s top 5 photographs of the week. Every Friday.

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Harley Weir via wvdv

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Alberto Lizaralde via Fotografia Magazine

Adam Amengual

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Thank you for selecting my image!!!!

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I have known Jesse and Marisha for many years. We have traveled together making work and have always been in conflict with how we go about making pictures. This has caused some friction in our friendship. I think the problem is that Marisha is not taking responsibility for her desire to portray people in a specific way. What she is doing is dark, haunted and beautiful. It is also very fucked up. She is not making a commentary on the history of poverty in the region. Her work doesn’t give a fuck about this history. Nor does it have to. She is perpetuating stereotypes because she is in love with them. She is not alone. So many incredible works of fiction, so many incredible films, so many other photographers do this and we love them for it. My problem is not with the work (its beautiful and meticulously crafted) or even the way she is treating people. Marisha is a kind hearted person and I truly believe she treated the people she met in Mcdowell County, West Virginia with kindness.  I also believe she was frightened and scared when surrounded by citizens of the town. I hope this experience brings her closer to taking responsibility for and speaking up on behalf of why she makes a very specific, one sided, highly fetishistic kind of work. Once she does this I think it will make what she is doing more accessible. I’d like to believe her work could even force us to confront how we are drawn to representations of a certain kind of hard luck life. As Bruce Springsteen so eloquently put it in a song and an album, we are all drawn to depictions of Darkness on the Edge of Town. We always will be.

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People should know about this bullshit harassment of Marisha and her brother. The corporate media and our government has made everyone so paranoid that now no one can trust each other. So ridiculous.

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Heading to NYC next week for an assignment on Monday and then meetings. Thank you @travistee and @caaaseee at #feraldigital for hooking up some office space while there was construction at my apartment.

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Studio apartment book editing… 😅 #micasadepalmas (at mi casa)

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Heading to NYC next week for an assignment on Monday and then meetings. Thank you @travistee and @caaaseee at #feraldigital for hooking up some office space while there was construction at my apartment.

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Good size web update with commissions and assignments from the past year. www.adamamengual.com (at mi casa)

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Pictures of @hannielkhatib for a converse book project I shot last month. Thank you @zachcallahan for sending the snaps over.

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Contour welcomes new photographer Adam Amengual!

Adam Amengual was born in Queens, NY and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts. His father gave him his first camera at 12 and he started documenting his friends and his surroundings. After studying the basics of photography in high school he continued his photographic education at both Massachusetts College of Art and Parsons School of Design. After art school Adam moved to Brooklyn, NY and began assisting photographers in advertising, fashion, celebrity, and music. His clients have included: Adidas, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Apetit, Converse, Esquire Magazine, Time Magazine, The U.S. State Department, Inc. Magazine, Time Out New York, Men’s Health , New York Magazine, NYU Medical, Juxtapoz Magazine, Sony BMG, Nobu, Wieden+Kennedy NYC, and Variety.

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@variety from November with portraits of Sons Of Anarchy actor Theo Rossi

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Shot again for @variety this week and scooped a few issues with my work in it. This one was from Oct. w/ portraits of Showtime CEO Matt Blank and composer AR Rahman .

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"There was no plan B for me."

"Sons of Anarchy" actor Theo Rossi photographed by adamamengual for Variety. Read the full interview “‘Sons of Anarchy’s’ Theo Rossi on the Show’s Final Ride, Producing and the Future” here: http://on.variety.com/1EyZT1G

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Nicole Richie photographed by adamamengual for Variety’s New Leaders.

Learn about the young talent who are creating the future of entertainment here: http://variety.com/t/hollywoods-new-leaders/

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Another regram from @variety my biggest story for them yet.

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Regram from @variety Thank you for such a rad assignment!

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Veteran composer of Hollywood, Tamil, Hindi and Chinese films A. R. Rahman accepted an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music this month. Learn about his transition to Hollywood and his approach to “Slumdog Millionaire” here: http://on.variety.com/10jHCqx

Photo credit adamamengual for Variety