Adam Shemper
1975
Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
2009
Graduated California Institute of Integral Studies, MA in Counseling Psychology
2004
Graduated UC Berkeley, School of Journalism, MJ in Magazine Writing
1997
Graduated Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, BA in Photography &
American Studies
Solo Exhibitions
2007 “Many People are Seeking.” California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
2002 “Sardis Lake.” Southside Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
2001 “Sardis Lake.” Driskel Gallery, The Schoolhouse Center. Provincetown, Massachusetts
2001 “Junkyard.” Barnard Observatory Gallery, University of Mississippi, Oxford
2000 “Airport People.” The Schoolhouse Center, Driskel Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2000 "Airport People.” Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts
1999 “Junkyard.” C.W. Woods Gallery, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
1998 “Junkyard.” Thornes Art Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
1998 “Jews of Mississippi.” A Gallery, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1998 "New Work." The Schoolhouse Center, Driskel Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1997 “Junkyard.” Saenger Center Gallery. Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1997 “Junkyard.” Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Group Exhibitions
2023 “Blessed Unrest” Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California
2015 “Microworks” A.P.E. Ltd Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2013 “Cruel and Unusual/PPOTR” Reportage Photography Festival. Sydney, Australia
2012 “Cruel and Unusual/PPOTR” Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen, The Netherlands
2012 “Cruel and Unusual/PPOTR” Photoville Festival NYC. Brooklyn, New York
2004 “Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self” International Center of Photography, New York
2001 “Selected artists” The Schoolhouse Center, Driskel Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2000 “30th Anniversary Exhibit.” Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1999 “Carried to the Heart: Faith and Doubt in Contemporary Southern Photography” Lewis Art Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
Publications
2023 Turning Words: Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers, Hozan Alan Senauke; Shambhala. Portrait of Joanna Macy
2020 A Wild Love For the World, edited by Stephanie Kaza; Shambhala. Portrait of Joanna Macy
2020 The Guardian. Portrait of Sarah Broom
2019 The Washington Post. Portrait of Sarah Broom
2019 The Paris Review. Portrait of Sarah Broom
2016 West Marin Review. “On the Day of Our Engagement, Tomales Bay, California, November 22, 2010,” photograph
2015 The Shambhala Sun (now Lion’s Roar). Portrait of Joanna Macy
2012 Brink Magazine. “Bart Entrance, Corner of 16th and Mission Street, San Francisco,” feature photograph & image illustrations
2011 The New York Times, Lens. “Focus on Prison Photography,” photo from “Portraits of Invisible Men: Photographs from the Louisiana State Penitentiary”
2011 Exposure. Portrait of Jerome Liebling
2011 Oxford American Magazine. “Barry Hannah in the World,” story & photograph
2010 East Bay Express. Cover photograph of dancer Katie Faulkner
2009 Mother Jones Magazine. “Portraits of Invisible Men: Photographs from the Louisiana State Penitentiary,” photo-essay
2006 Mother Jones Magazine.“Still Big in Japan,” story
2005 Oxford American Magazine. “Waiting for Condi,” story
2005 Salon.com. “The Execution of Stanly Tookie Williams,” photographs & story
2004 Time Magazine. “Best Bookstore: Eslite in Taipei, Taiwan,” story & photograph
2004 Time Magazine. “An Anonymous Cry,” story
2004 San Francisco Chronicle. “Stan’s World,” photographs & story
2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Taipei Night Life," travel photo-essay
2003 Salon.com. “Baghdad’s Shame,” photographs & story
2003 Oxford American. “Sardis Lake, Mississippi,” photo-essay
2003 Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, Janet Burroway; Penguin Academics. Image from "Airport People" series
2001 DoubleTake, Special September 11th edition. “Airport People,” photo-essay
2001 DoubleTake. “Bradley International Airport, Hartford, Connecticut, 1999,” cover & inspiration for “Music for Airports” with story by Charles Baxter
2000 Oxford American, A Painted House, contributing cover and photographs for six issues (March-August 2000)
1999 Oxford American, “Other People’s Children,” story & photographs
1998 Oxford American. “Our Junkyard,” photographs & introduction
1998 Pakn Treger. “Mississippi Jews,” cover & photo-essay
1997 The Photo Review. "Junk-hauler Unloading, Hattiesburg, Mississippi," photographs
Film & Television
2016 13th, Netflix.
Photograph from “Portraits of Invisible Men: Photographs from the Louisiana State Penitentiary” in Ava DuVernay’s Academy-Award nominated documentary.
2000 CBS Early Show with Bryant Gumbel. Photographs, originally published with John
Grisham’s serialized book The Painted House in the Oxford American magazine, were part of an accompanying montage for an interview with the writer.