Adam traces his first drive to become a photographer back to 1987, when he worked on an isuue of Homeboy Magazine with lensman and director Spike Jonze. A former student of Kapulani Landgraf and Mark Hamasaki, he worked in Honolulu before jetting off in 2001 to Asia, where he worked as a model. Currently, he works out of Hawaii, but heads back to Asia periodically.