About the Flag:
This flag features photographic imagery of immigrant plant life thriving in Philadelphia’s urban landscape, drawing a parallel between their journey and that of the diverse people who have made the city their home. By capturing these resilient plants on film, Adams aims to highlight how species originally foreign to the region have woven themselves into Philadelphia’s visual and cultural fabric.
About the Artist:
Born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised as a bridge baby between school years in Camden and summers in North Philadelphia, Adrian Adams Jr. is a product of the 1990s shaped by the music, sports, and pop culture of the early 2000s. He is a self-taught photographer rooted in his West Indian lineage; every two years, his father took him and his sisters to Antigua for Carnival, immersing him in Caribbean rhythm, ritual, and ancestral storytelling. These journeys infused his imagination with diasporic color and memory, grounding his artistic identity in a global sense of Black culture.
