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BIO:
Adam Smith
www.adamsmithphotography.com
(404)593-6388
[email protected]
Adam Smith graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in Business Administration and a love of photography. While at Ole Miss, Adam studied with photographer, author, and folklorist Tom Rankin, currently Director of Documentary Studies at Duke University. Time spent in Mississippi provided Adam opportunities to document the music and landscapes of North Mississippi, as well as, the Mississippi Delta. Adam has continued to work, documenting and preserving the blues in Mississippi for the last 8 years. He along with partner Amos Harvey have raised over $7000.00 for the musicians aid in Mississippi. While in Mississippi Adam produced and participated in a weeklong blues shoot with world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz that culminated in her most recent book AMERICAN MUSIC.
Adam’s photography has appeared in the following publications: Crossroads, A Journal of Southern Culture, Paste Magazine,Billboard Magazine, Living Blues Magazine, Hittin’ the Note, Guitar Player, Gig, Mojo, Big City Blues, Georgia Music Magazine, An Honest Tune, and Blues Review (UK), and the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles. His shot of Drive-by Truckers is featured on Rolling Stone.com. Album cover photography includes Junior Kimbrough’s “Meet me in the City”, Precious Bryant’s “Fool Me Good”, R.L. Burnside’s “Burnside on Burnside”, Drive-by Truckers “The Dirty South”, and “Live at the 40 watt.” Tishamingo’s “Wear and Tear”, Richard Johnston’s “Foot Hill Stomp.”, Jimbo Mathis and the Knockdown Society’s “Let the Devil Ride” and the upcoming albums by Mississippi Blues artist Duck Holms and Alvin Youngblood Hart In addition, Adam has photographed such artists as T- Model Ford, Paul “Wine” Jones, Cedell Davis, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Robert Lockwood Jr. Band photo credits include Drive-by Truckers, North Mississippi All-stars, Lucero, Cary Hudson Band,Southern Bitch, Patterson Hood, Porter Wagoner, Marty Stuart, and The Whigs among others.
Adam’s work has been exhibited at Southside Gallery in Oxford, Mississippi, Elements Gallery in Macon, Georgia, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, The Arts Alliance Macon, Georgia.,.Moving Spirits Gallery Atlanta, Georgia, and The Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
Adam was employed as Manager of the Photography Department for over 4 years, at Atlanta College of Art and is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Georgia State University, and his Freelance Career in photography
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QUOTES:
"Adam Smith wears a lot of hats...booking agent for the Hummingbird in Macon Georgia, Professional Photographer, Fund Raiser, and Manager for Hank Vegas, but one look at his photography and you know where his heart lies. Whether it's the weary eyes of blues legend R.L. Burnside, the raw energy of Patterson Hood or the reflective gaze of Porter Wagoner just months before his death, Smith's art tells a story."
-Food and Culture Magazine July 2008
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“Well made photographs have a permenance, a way of taking us to a place and leaving us there to reflect. Adam Smith’s compelling photographs of blues culture and it’s surrounding landscapes do just that!”
-Tom Rankin
Executive Director of Documentary Studies
Duke University
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Photographer of the Year 2007
Adam Smith- He may have spilled his heart and soul into the blues-soaked grounds of Mississippi as he studied under the famous Annie Leibovitz , but your favorite photographer is now putting his skills to task in our growing music scene, capturing the grit, grime, and passion of our local musicians with the same fervor he uses with Porter Wagoner , Marty Stuart, Lucero, and the Drive-by Truckers.
11th Hour – Presenting the “BEST OF MACON”
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“I think Adam Smith is as fine a photographer as anyone working these days. His live shots somehow capture the passion of the best rock photography from the Creem Era.(High compliment from an old rock nut like me) His portraits of old blues legends are astounding and somehow life affirming. He could end up being one of the greats.”
-Patterson Hood (Drive-by Truckers)
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“The blues captured Smith’s heart, and his aim is to capture it’s Soul.”
-Memphis Commercial Appeal 2000
-St. Louis Post 2000
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“Smith’s photos are elegant enough in themselves, but his own stories of Mississippi make the show a must-see for blues fans…”
-Jerry Cullum
-Atlanta Journal Constitution 2003
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