ABOUT & CONTACT — ADAM NAWROT

Adam Nawrot is an NYC based filmmaker & photographer, and regular contributor to Climbing Magazine. He operates Safe Harbor, a production company focused on the intersection of commercial and non-fiction storytelling, and works as a freelance DP. Adam’s interests include alpine starts, well lit rooms, and occasionally writing about himself in the third person.

Adam's work has taken him around the globe and is driven by a lifelong passion for exploration and storytelling. An avid cyclist, paddler, climber and general jack of all trades, his filmmaking and photography is never too far removed from a core adventurous spirit.

Phone | 848 - 391 - 5214
Email | atnawrot@gmail.com

I wondered for years about how to effectively bring a fog machine outdoors in a portable manner. The trick is that you need a means to get the fog juice very hot without plugging into a wall. With the rise of vape-kids I figured the solution must be electric but batteries kept being the bottle neck in any solution I could think up. Last summer though I finally saw a video of an propane insect fogger being used to heat up mineral oil and create fog. It was like the answer was there all along. Portable camp stoves aren’t electric, duh!

#bts #gravelbike #gravelgrinder #delaware #whiteclaycreek #whiteclaycreekstatepark

More from the @fujibikes Carbon Jari collection.

#gravelbike #gravelgrinder #whiteclaycreek #whiteclaycreekstatepark #delaware

Shots from the @fujibikes Carbon Jari shoot last summer. Lot of fun ones from this collection!

#gravelgrinder #gravelbike #whiteclay #delaware

Under the wave in Pinnacle Gully. After nothing but terrible weather on our previous Mt. Washington visits, we felt pretty fortunate to luck out with blue bird weather for a whole day!

#mtwashington #pinnaclegully #huntingtonravine #iceclimbing #alpine

Back from a much needed climbing trip through some new-to-me areas. Had a blast on this beautiful line in Smuggler’s Notch.
#blueroom #smugglersnotch @iceclimbing @ne_ice_conditions #iceclimbing

Airtime from the @greykult_skateboards and @freedomnj skate jam in Trenton last Friday. This place is rad. ☠️ #trentonmakestheworldtakes #skate #trenton #shredtilldead

Our expressed objective finally complete, trip leader @scott.martin.images finally breathes a sigh of relief while rattling around in the back of the pick-up shuttling us away from the take out.

Finally on the river after a few days of waiting for the water to show up on the border of South Africa and Namibia. Thankfully our solid crew never let spirits drop even a little despite the temporal set back!

#orangeriver #8minutesinafrica #southafrica #namibia #nrs

Portraits from a one day climbing blitz in Paarl, South Africa before heading up to the border of Namibia to paddle the Orange River.

@watermelonlife and I recently moved to Trenton, NJ to split the difference between Philly where Sonia works on an expansive regional bike trail network and New York where most of my work comes from. We’ve been having a great time getting to know the area and settling in to our new house. Here’s a few shots from a local park where bike polo is alive and well.

#trentonfuckingbikepolo #trentonmakestheworldtakes
#bikepolo

I’ve officially peaked in my filmmaking career with this Iphone and Gaff tape scope I rigged up to more easily nail an unpredictable and super fast ~400mm panning shot of a skydiver “swooping” the ground with Redbull the other day ✨🔥💯🤣 For those interested, the iphone let me make a much easier pan by allowing me to monitor a wider field of view instead of the super narrow one of the actual shot. When looking through the iphone screen, the little piece of gaff tape on the monitor was sighted in to match the center of the camera's actual frame, so nailing the shot was a matter of keeping the subject on the tip of the gaff tape while looking through the iphone screen as opposed to frantically guessing where and with what speed the I might catch the subject with the actual camera.

#shittyrigs @reddigitalcinema @redbull

Hard not to feel like you’re in some Suessisn world out here. Happy to have finally ticked this one off.

#basic

Perfect weather for 27 miles of downhill from alpine to desert terrain! #thewholeenchilada #moab #mountainbike #mountainbiking #earlytobedearlytoshred

WE GOT ENGAGED! @watermelonlife and I psyched to announce that we’ll be tying the knot. :) Sonia is a girl like no other! If someone were to tell me that I’d ever find a bike loving, rock climbing sweetheart with a genuine penchant for suffering in the wild and a distinct lack of malice, who grew up on D.I.Y., black metal, and photo chemicals, AND speaks Polish as a product of growing up in the weird world that is first generational American life, I’d say they were dreaming.
I’m so glad that my return home from snackmastering around the west magically coincided with your return from three years in Turkey! Here’s to forever, you dream girl!

A still from a @pteclights video I shot this summer. 📷 @scott.martin.images
#backyard #campfire

Colca River Ferryman - this was probably one of the more fun methods of transport utilized on our shoot
#colcacanyon #canco #adventurefilmmaking #peru

We spent two nights in Canco, a small 'village' with a total population of 6 people. We were surrounded by cactus farms that seemed to be afflicted by some sort of fungus, a heavy blow we thought to a region so dependent on its agriculture. Turns out we were very mistaken and that the product being harvested wasn't the cactus at all but rather the funny white stuff that ailed it. The white residue is produced by insects called Cochineal that live off the cactus. These insects are harvested and sold at high premium for use in cosmetics and food dyes.

#entomology #cochineal #cactus

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