Adam Golfer is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. His studio practice combines elements of essay filmmaking, photography, and book making, and informs the commissions he takes on as a cinematographer and director. His cinematography is invested in moments of human intimacy and rawness that feel tactile, no matter the scale or situation.

Professionally, he splits his time between shooting fashion/commercial projects and directing short-form documentaries. His personal projects explore borders, and the ambiguous boundaries between personal and collective memory.

Golfer holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York, and was an artist fellow in the 2022-2023 cohort of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship.

Golfer’s photography installations have been exhibited at Underdonk, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Goucher College, the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Nurture Art, the Goethe Institut and the 92nd Street Y. In 2025, he was the cinematographer on the short film Divers, which had its world premiere at Visions du Reel. He has also screened films at AmDocs, the Miami Film Festival, Film Diary NYC, Newfest, Outfest Fusion, and Frameline.

His 2016 photographic monograph, A House Without a Roof, was shortlisted for the Aperture First Book Award and the Kraszna-Krausz Photobook Award in 2016-2017. In 2024, Golfer published Kaddish, a book of photographs, screenshots, home movies, Zoom funerals, iPhone videos and text fragments. The book looks at the manner in which personal experiences of loss become woven into the fabric of broader historical narratives and collective mourning. He has given talks about Kaddish in New York and Berlin.