Email: ajfphoto@yahoo.com

After graduating from Parsons School of Design Adam Fernandez began his professional career with The New York Times. During his six years as a full-time freelancer there he specialized as a crime and court photographer and was published by virtually every section of the paper, including a photo essay devoted exclusively to his own work in the papers City section. The Associated Press, Scientific American, Individual Investor magazine and a variety of other editorial publications have published his work.

Adam has also done extensive annual report photography for several large non-profit organizations. He spent four years working as the chief photographer for the New York City Board of Education, and has worked for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation since 1998. While working for LISC he produced work for the Stand Up for Rural America campaign resulting in two major solo exhibitions in Washington D.C. the first of which traveled the country for over a year. Several of the images were also exhibited in the U.S. Congress at the re-opening of the Congressional rural caucus.

An adjunct professor of photography at New School University since 1998, Adam joined the School of Journalism at NYU in 2005.

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