Born in Los Angeles in 1959, Philip Adam made the pilgrimage in 1978 to study with Ansel Adams in Carmel and Yosemite Valley. Returning to Southern California he then became apprentice to Herb Quick, Senior Photographer in the Department of Photographic Services at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). During his thirty year career, Philip had been affiliated with numerous museums and cultural institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the National Maritime Museum, the Sierra Club, the San Francisco Chronicle and the California Historical Society. In 2010 he immigrated to England. Philip’s photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the California State Library, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the Special Collections Library at UC Davis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other public and private collections.