Adam Ferguson: The Stillness in Chaos
When first looking at Adam Ferguson’s photograph, something becomes apparent immediately. It is a rare type of photography; it’s the type of photography that brings clarity to places of chaos. Fergusons work brings humanity to places that are often stripped of it. Much of Ferguson’s work is of places in social unrest and in places of war, however, Ferguson doesn’t attempt to dramatize conflict. Instead, his portraits offer a somewhat quiet confrontation instead of those loud war images we are so often used to seeing. His images aren’t asking us to look away, but they are asking us to look closer. Carlos Soyos, 34, and his son Enderson, 8, Guatemalans, Good Samaritan migrant shelter, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 2021. Photograph by Carlos Soyos and Adam Ferguson One of the things that makes Ferguson stand out to me personally is his innate ability to find stillness in the middle of disorder and chaos. We see it so often today where photographs chase the action, not Ferguson; he c...