Adam Perez

Photography
Los Angeles, U.S.

Artist Development Fund recipient, 2021

See more of Adam's work on Adobe Stock

Photograph of Adam Perez against a pink background. The photograph was captured by Bethany Mollenkof.

Photograph of Adam Perez sitting against a mirror table next to a palm plant. The photograph was captured by Bethany Mollenkof.

“My vision is to illustrate highlight the beauty and diversity of the queer Latinx community and counter the idea that the Latino community is monolithic.”

Meet Adam

Adam Perez (they/them) is a first-generation immigrant queer photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. His intimate work across portraiture, reportage, and documentary film explores themes of systemic poverty, migration, queerness, and climate change. Adam is currently an Emerson Fellow working on a photo and video project entitled “Pandemic in the Heartland.” The project explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has devastated marginalized communities in California's Central Valley, which produces a quarter of the food in the U.S. He’s also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Adam’s commission project for Adobe Stock is called “LatinX Next-Gen: The future is queer." It’s a portrait and lifestyle series focusing on genderqueer Latinx Millennials and Gen Z’s. The series aims at empowering the image of a marginalized group that has been neglected in visual media He says, “The inspiration for the work came from genderqueer Latinx individuals who’ve shared their experience online. Over the years, I saw a larger movement rebuking the rigidity of old gender standards. Many blend their Latinx culture and queerness to push the boundaries of fashion and culture. Adam says his project’s vision is to“illustrate the diversity within the genderqueer Latinx community and counter the idea that the Latino community is monolithic.”