Photographer of the Year

This is a series of self-portraits of migrants in Mexico, as they wait to cross the border into the United States.The life of a migrant at the border, waiting for the right moment to cross into the United States, is often in flux. To capture a piece of this uncertain journey, I mounted a medium format camera on a tripod with a cable release and then stepped back, allowing the migrants to choose the moment of capture and give them agency in the process of documenting their lives.

Adam Ferguson is an Australian photographer whose work explores conflict and the implications of an overarching industrial military complex. Ferguson holds a B.A from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Australia and currently lives between New York City and Sydney. He is currently working on two monographs - a war diary about his work in Afghanistan, and a contemporary portrait of Australia's bush and it’s colonial legacy.