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

A hard crust layer of ice made for some dynamic spray the other night.

#iceclimbing @iceclimbing #neiceconditions #plotterkillpreserve

Playing around with an old motif.
One of my earliest 'real' sets of photos was from a night ice climbing photo shoot I did for Princeton Tec back in the day. Without any ice gear whatsoever @bryanculbertson and I super sketchily suspended ourselves in the middle of the Main Flow at the Narrows by scrambling up its flanks and swinging ourselves into position. The resulting photos were some of my favorites even to this day.
These are a few semi-hasty shots from last Friday - a great start to a very pleasant weekend jaunt around the Catskills.

🐲 The bike squad rollin in the Trenton Chinese New Year parade 🐉
#trentonfuckingbikepolo #chinesenewyear

This descent reminded me of the good part of Moab’s Porcupine Rim - which has a great little section of trail at the end of an absolute eternity of garbage trail, yet is still considered an OG uber-classic. Why is that? Why has no one done anything about those 8 miles of choss in all of the millennia that its been around?
#peopleofmoabanswerme #lasvegas #mountainbike #cowboytrails

@rickianniello missed the ‘rest day’ memo and tried to kill me by slapping on 20 miles of headwinds to our ride. Glad we just rode the Cowboy Trails over Las Vegas instead because they were tight.

#mountainbike #lasvegasmountainbiking #cowboytrails #redrocks #idkwhatmtbhashtagspeopleuseanymore

Last set of screen shots from the dutch bikes shoot. That $10 articulating @ikeausa lamp is the real mvp.

#ikeameatballs #bmpcc4k #framebuilder #bmx

Really loving the new Blackmagic PCC4K, such an amazing little camera! This project was probably the first time in my life that I actually enjoyed color grading video. 3:1 Raw was way more fun than slogging through s-log.

#blackmagicdesign #framebuilder #welding #filmmaking #bmpcc4k

I’ve been doing way more video projects than photo projects over the last few years which has always been hard to translate into instagram content, so I’m trying something new. Here are some screen grabs from a new video project with frame builder @defconfour
#framebuilder #njbmx #welding #bmpcc4k #cinematography #bmx

Double exposures from a sick @mollyrhythm set last Friday!

#incamera #doubleexposure #asburypark #mollyrhythm

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

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