Adam Stoltman Photography

07/21/2023

It has been a long time since I have worked on a larger story with the Times, so I was delighted to collaborate with a writer I admire and respect greatly and a subject about whom I feel the same. It is about cadence, rhythm, poetry, rivers and life.....and how they, and we are connected. Hope you enjoy. Thanks too to the Minneapolis Rowing Club for their hospitality and support for the project. Nice too to collaborate with NYT Sports at this time when their future as a department has been unfortunately decided.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/sports/poet-rower-wang-ping.html?

Spend a day on the water with Wang Ping and you will discover a source of her poetry.

05/19/2021

Did you ever want to learn what goes into creating compelling and high quality sports imagery? I'll be teaching a virtual workshop on the topic with the Palm Beach Photographic Centre beginning tomorrow. There is still space and still time to sign up if you like.

Bjorn Borg celebrates after defeating John McEnroe to win his fifth consecutive Wimbledon singles championship in July, 1980. ©AdamStoltman

04/21/2021

Installation of Capturing Culture, a long term photographic documentation project and exhibit designed to highlight the diversity, richness and resiliency of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities and cultures across the nation, in the Russell Senate Office building, eight years ago in April, 2013. The project was produced in partnership with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and was tied to the largest ever public health grant directed towards these communities, and to the foundation's America Healing, racial equity initiative. Over 14 months I collaborated with each of these communities in documenting stories they defined, and I photographed. The resulting exhibit was displayed in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office building in Washington, where it was sponsored by the Honorable Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii. The exhibition also featured an original poem by Wang Ping, entitled The River Within Us, and created for the installation.

11/22/2020

Adding my voice to those wishing a happy birthday to Billie Jean King, who turns 77 today. Her tireless work for greater equality and equity not just between the genders but across many sectors has had a profound impact which has been felt well beyond her sport. Her gifts as an athlete were formidable as was her competitive spirit. I was fortunate enough to see her play towards the end of her career, and to photograph her during that time as was the case here at Wimbledon in 1983. Years earlier, in an unexpected encounter she gave me some encouraging words when I was 16 and just beginning to cover sports, which were inspiring and motivating and impacted my own career path. Her story offers so many lessons in how we can make a difference. Something worth reflecting on at this time.

06/18/2020

I took this photograph in Tokyo in 1985. I had been photographing around the city on a beautiful spring day when I came across Little League fields with a number of games going on. Amidst all of the activity, this one young boy was perfectly poised on the pitcher's mound as he began his wind up. He was striking in both his composure and quality of held energy inherent in his pose. A picture of perfect balance and equilibrium. The image has been on my mind through these last many months while contemplating how to retain one's balance in turbulent times. While I have no perfect answer to that question, I rather like the fact that a photograph from 35 years ago spoke to me across the years and helped keep me centered while seas churned everywhere. © Adam Stoltman, All Rights Reserved.

05/19/2020

And just because The Last Dance is over, and well.......who doesn't enjoy a little more of MJ?

12/06/2019

https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/parks-and-people/campaigns/3254

A multi year photographic exploration of New Yorker’s relationship with their parks, green spaces and playgrounds

11/27/2019

As many of you know I have for the last 4-5 years been documenting the subtle relationship between Parks and People in New York City. Thus far I have visited and photographed in over 70 parks, natural areas and playgrounds. The work has been presented at Cornell’s School of Architecture and Planning under the auspices of NYC Parks’ Science of the Living City Program and at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park. It is has also been used to support the promotion of Nature Goals for New York City, part of the strategic plan for New York.

The project has by and large been funded by small personal donations from individuals very much in the spirit of parks themselves, which are some of our most democratic spaces, and in which individuals of all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds and social-economic status meet and have access to. New York also has nearly 30,000 acres of park lands, approximately 10,000 acres of designated natural areas with nearly 40% of the city is under some form of natural cover. Our relationship to nature and access to these p***c spaces are key to keeping urban life in balance, and it is this subtle connection this project seeks to make visible.

The project is moving into its next phases of development and if so inclined, there is a link below through which you can make a small tax deductible contribution to further support this work. The hope is to raise an additional $ 5,000 in the next few weeks to support further documentation and planning.

Parks and People is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Parks and People must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Thank you.

Parks and People

01/18/2019

What has always drawn me to photograph sports has been the idea of transcending limitations and what it says about the human spirit, and our ability to elevate to great heights. If you watch sports long enough, familiar visual patterns are always present which speak to this. Grace, symmetry, balance, extension, power. Here in five different sports, these rhythms, moods and qualities are present in all of them. It has always been my favorite part of being involved in this work and watching athletes up close performing at their peak.

10/28/2018

Over the last three years I have been documenting the subtle relationship between parks and people in New York City. With nearly 30,000 acres of parkland, approximately 10,000 of which are designated natural areas, New York's system of parks is one of the most complex in the world. It is as much a social as well as environmental ecosystem, tied to the diversity of the city's many neighborhoods and communities. Parks provide a democratic space for all. This week I participated in a panel discussion at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park with five other artists working to interpret the City as Ecosystem -- the title of the group show currently on display there -- along with environmental and social scientists. Each of these artists participated in a year long Artist in Residency program with the Urban Field Station, a research facility and joint effort between NYC Parks and The US Forest Service designed to foster dialogue between artists and scientists. In the image here, environmentalists from the Natural Areas Conservancy survey a marsh area in Queens' Alley Pond Park in 2015 in an effort to produce conceptual designs for the 23 acre area to improve both resilience and access.