CB Adams, MFA, is an award-winning fiction writer and fine art photographer based in the St. Louis, MO area. Adams works with more than 60 film-based and digital camera formats from 4x5 to 35mm and toy cameras. In addition to works exhibited in more than 30 exhibitions nationwide, recent photographs have been published in Midwest Review, Fatal Flaw, Genre Urban Arts 7, Heirlock Literary Magazine, and Tiny Seed. His fiction has been published in River Styx (twice), Zoetrope All-Story Extra, Missouri Writers’ Biennial, Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, Conclave 2021, Vision Quest, The Distillery, and elsewhere. The independent weekly Riverfront Times named Adams, “St. Louis’ Most Under-Appreciated Writer.”

SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS

• Eighth Biannual Exhibition, Angad Arts Hotel, St. Louis, MO.

• Photo Noir: Light and shadow in black and white film photography, New Orleans Photo Alliance.

• Black & White & Eight Shades of Gray, (4 photographs), Gallery at Scenic Regional Library, Hannibal, MO.

  Art Through the Lens, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY (2021)

• Plastic Camera Show, Kansas City Stockyards Gallery (August 2021)

• Missouri Art Now: A Bicentennial Celebration, traveling exhibition visiting: Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, MO; The Center for Missouri Studies, Columbia, MO; Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO; Hannibal Arts Council, Hannibal, MO; and Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO

• Honors Exhibition (8 photographs), Art Saint Louis (Summer 2021)

• Words, Words, Words, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis (March 2020)

• Somerville Toy Camera Festival (2 photographs), Brickbottom Gallery, Boston (September 2019)

• Summertime, A Smith Gallery (2 photographs), Juried by Jennifer Shaw

• American Conversations (2 photographs), Art Saint Louis (August 2019)

• Architectonic (honorable mention), The Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO (July 2019)

• Plastic Fantastic X, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR (June 2019)

• Krappy Kamera XXI (2), Soho Photo Gallery, New York City (February 2019)

• The State of Our Shared Land (2), St. Louis Artists’ Guild, (September 2018)

• Somerville Toy Camera Festival (2), Brickbottom Gallery, Boston (September 2018)

• Joke’s On You, The Foundry Art Centre (December 2017)

• Interpretations V (s), Columbia Art League Gallery, Columbia, MO (August 2017)

• Comestibles (2), Columbia Art League (October 2017)

• Interpretations II, Columbia Art League Gallery (2) (August 2014)

• From Light to Dark, Art Saint Louis (April 2015)

• Curious Camera, ArtsEye Gallery,

• Food Glorious Food II, Art Saint Louis (1 SOLD (July 2014)

• Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nave Gallery, Boston (July 2014)

• Under at the Influence (2), Art Saint Louis Gallery (2013)

• Urban Architecture II (first runner up) (juried by Michael Eastman) (2), Soulard Art Market, 2013

• My Backyard, Lenscratch online exhibit (curated by Aline Smithson), 2013)

• The Holga Show (4), SAANS Gallery, Salt Lake City, 2008 and featured in accompanying catalogue

• Unrefined Light: Image-Making With Plastic Cameras  (juried by Michelle Bates), 2008

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS

2019 - Genre: Urban Arts 7 (2 photographs), Milwaukee, WI. Selected by Nakeysha Roberts, writer, actor and producer at The Story Collider podcast.

1996  - First Place in Missouri Arts Council’s Writers Biennial (only fiction writer selected)

1996   - Named “St. Louis Most Under-Appreciated Writer” by poet/author/musician Richard Newman in St. Louis Riverfront Times.

1985 - First Place in Missouri Arts Council’s “MISSOURI WRITING!” competition

SITTINGS

I am available for a limited number of portrait (individuals, couples, or groups) assignments per year. I am located in St. Louis/St. Charles/ Chesterfield, Missouri area.  References are available on request.

Some images from my portfolio are available for sale. Contact me directly for availability and pricing.

I am also available for readings of my works.

Twitter: @hansduker for photography, @OnSnobHill for writing and blogs: Life On Snob Hill and Freaks & Beeks

Facebook: Please like Qwerky Photography.

If you want what I do, please contact me through the methods below.

Phone/text: 314-973-0239

Email: cbadams@qwerkyphotography.com