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 skateboarding and getting into trouble. He went on to taking portraits of his friends through high school. Adam then studied Photography at both Massachusetts College of Art and Parsons School of Design.

Adam currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his girlfriend and his dog Shug. His work has been featured in Mass Appeal, Swindle, and Surface magazines, advertising for Tank Theory, and worked with musicians at Def Jux Records and Sony BMG as well as several indepedent musicians. Exhibitions of his works have been displayed at the Massachusetts College of Art and The University of Massachusetts Boston. Adam also attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2006.