Ahmer Inam is a photographer who works with the “everyday ordinary and mundane”; animates, the inanimates, and their environment. His personal interest is in finding the extraordinary beauty in ordinary subjects. Not confining himself to a particular genre, Ahmer Inam draws his inspiration for visual exploration from such varied masters as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston to William Eggleston, and Ernst Haas.

"For me, photography is a medium through which I explore the world that surrounds me. I attempt to understand and admire the extraordinary in the ordinary and the mundane."

Ahmer Inam lives and works in Portland, OR, and several of his photographs are in private collections.

Experience:

Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2016-2018

Chair of the Board of Directors, The Light Factory Photo Arts Center, Charlotte, NC, 2012-2015

Publications:

Pandemic: The Best 100 Photos According to their Authors, AlmaLusa, March 2022 issuu.com/almalusa.org/docs/issuu_pandemic

ABC News with Charles Gibson, Story on Photographers Documenting Current Recession, April 2009

JPG Magazine, Issue 19

JPG Magazine, Issue 18

JPG Magazine, Issue 16

Charlotte Eye, Issue Week of 04/30/2008

JPG Magazine, Issue 15

JPG Magazine, Issue 14

Exhibitions:

Selection, Curated Group Show, Privata, Portland, OR - January 2024

Selection, Annual Curated Member Show, Blue Moon Camera and Machine, Portland, OR - December 2023

Best of 2022 Round-up Selection, If You Leave, January 2023 - www.instagram.com/p/Cm5HUj2oRvB/?hl=en&img_index=1

Feature Shoot Print Swap Curated Group Show, The Foley Gallery, June 2021 www.featureshoot.com/2021/03/the-print-swap-is-returning-...

Group Show, Paper Cut Gallery, October – December 2014

Musicality, Juried Group Exhibition, Paper Cut Gallery, August – September 2014

Sights & Sounds of America, Charlotte Symphony Presents 'Ansel Adams in America', January 2014

The Light Factory 2010 Member Show, 04/26/2010 – 08/08/2010

The Light Factory 2009 Member Show, 07/11/2009 – 09/06/2009

The Light Factory 2008 Member Show, 07/12/2008 – 09/12/2008

Auctions:

The Light Factory 36th Annual Art Auction, 2017

The Light Factory 35th Annual Art Auction, 2016

The Light Factory 34th Annual Art Auction, 2015

The Light Factory 33rd Annual Art Auction, 2014

The Light Factory 32nd Annual Art Auction, 2013

The Light Factory 31st Annual Art Auction, 2012

The Light Factory 30th Annual Art Auction, 2011

The Light Factory 29th Annual Art Auction, 2010

The Light Factory 28th Annual Art Auction, 2009

Humane Society Adopt a Classroom Fundraiser, 2009

The Light Factory 27th Annual Art Auction, /2008

Competitions:

Third Prize - Ansel Adams Photographer of the Year Award, Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite Valley, CA - 2010

BBC.co.uk – Selection on the Theme of Food, 2009

Finalist – Food for Thought Theme Photography Competition (The Light Factory & Charlotte Eye), 2008

Finalist & Best of Competition Pick - Popular Photography Magazine, 2007 Photographer of the Year Competition