Peter Adams is an award-winning editorial photographer working at the intersection of technology, politics, and history. Although he has been making images his entire adult life, photography is his second career.
In 1993, from his college dorm room, Peter began posting his photography to the nascent World Wide Web—an experiment that led him to launch the first student-run online magazine. The project garnered worldwide attention at the dawn of the dot-com boom and led to nearly two decades of work in Silicon Valley before he returned to photography professionally.
A contributor to publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, and New York magazine, Peter has photographed many of the innovators shaping our tech-driven lives. His series, Faces of Open Source, chronicled the unsung technologists whose computer code underpins everything from the Internet to robotics.
While documenting mail-in voting during the 2020 presidential election, Peter became increasingly interested in the how technology shaped American politics—a curiosity that opened the door to the presidential library system operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. Since then, he has been on a mission to connect people with presidential history and explore how it can help inform the present moment.
His forthcoming book, POTUS: Icons, Artifacts and History That Shaped the American Presidency, offers a fresh look at the modern presidency by combining archival research with his photography of historical artifacts and records belonging to each president, from Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama.
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Contact Peter
Speaking, media or interview requests: hello@peteradams.org
For all photography related matters: (commissions, licensing, and print sales): www.peteradamsphoto.com