Adam Lampton is an American photographer and teacher. He earned his MFA in photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston in 2004 and is a professor of studio arts at Stonehill College in Massachusetts.
In 2006 a Fulbright fellowship took him to Macau for a year, the same year the city’s gambling revenues overtook those of the Las Vegas Strip. He photographed it with a large-format film camera and returned in 2015 and 2019. His wife is Brazilian and his father taught US-China relations for many years, which drew him to the former Portuguese colony.
The work became Nothing Serious Can Happen Here: Photographs from Macau (Kehrer Verlag, 2024), with essays by Lampton and Tim Simpson. It shows the city’s change from a small enclave into a gambling and leisure capital, and was a finalist for the Lucie First Book Prize. He describes his style as “poetically driven realism”.
