Adam Perez

Adam Perez is an acclaimed director, photographer, and educator born and raised in California’s rural Central Valley. He’s currently a Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, working on Valley of the Forgotten, Valle de los Olvidados, a prayer book that combines documentary photography with handwritten postcards, prayers, and stories from immigrant farmworker communities. The work is the result of his 2025 Catchlight Global Fellowship. He’s a frequent contributor to The New York Times, and his work has appeared in TIME magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and CNN Films, among others. The Magnum Foundation, Emerson Collective, The Center for Cultural Power, The California Arts Council, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences have supported his work on farmworker communities in California’s Central Valley.