Peter Adams is an award-winning editorial photographer working at the intersection of technology, politics, and history. His work has been published in numerous outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, BBC, 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.

In 2021, he began what would become the largest photographic exploration of the presidential library system operated by the National Archives. Over five years of research and travel, he gained rare access to these archives, locating and photographing more than 1,200 iconic objects and records that shaped the American presidency, from Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama.

Peter is based near Los Angeles and travels extensively.

You can contact Peter here and follow him on Instagram.

AWARDS

• American Photography 41 (2025)
• American Photography 39 (2023)
• American Photography 38 (2022)
• American Photography 37 (2021)
• American Photography 36 (2020)

LICENSING + Archive

Peter’s images can be licensed for commercial use. See our searchable archive for images.

Fine Art Print Sales

Information about fine art prints can found here or by contacting the studio.