Adam Huggins, 26, was born in Canada in 1981, at the age of nineteen what he wanted to do most was see the world and photography seemed like a possible way to do it. Since then he has been traveling and taking pictures that document society and the world we live in. His work has given him the opportunity to connect with different communities and learn about different cultures. Now, to him, photography is no longer just about traveling but about telling stories. After seven years, the boy who wanted to see the world calls himself a photojournalist.
His photography has been exhibited at venues which include Centre Pompidou, La Triennale di Milano, the Shanghai Art Museum, and Shiodomeitalia Creative Center in Tokyo.
He has worked with numerous publications which include The New York Times, ELLE, Der Spiegel, COLORS, and the International Herald Tribune.
In late 2007 he published a story about how New York City’s ubiquitous manhole covers are made at a foundry in India and soon after, it became a widely debated topic of conversation in numerous newspapers’ commentary and opinion pages, blogs, and television news channels, around the world. The photo-essay drew attention to the alarming lack of safety protections in place for the Indian workers that endure extremely hazardous working conditions in order to produce manhole covers for New York and other municipalities throughout the United States, calling for State legislatures and prompting Con Edison, one of the private utilities companies that purchases these items, to rewrite their future international contracts to include safety requirements.
He was subsequently awarded a Certificate of Special Merit at the 2007 Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong for this body of work.
In late 2004 he witnessed the devastation caused by the South Asian Tsunami to numerous fishing communities along the southern coast of India. The theme of fishing developed in his latest exhibited work has been a culmination of this experience as well as many hours spent fishing in the company of his family as a child.
He personally feels that we all have the same basic responsibility to take care of one another as members of the same species, as well for everything that we co-exist with in nature.
He tries to communicate this feeling through his stories and has an innate aspiration to share them with anyone who will give their attention, which is why he primarily works for mass media at the present time.
