Addis began shooting all of his documentary photography in black and white, a practice that he has been doing since college.  A few years ago he began experimenting with large-format color work with an 8x10 camera for his suburban landscape project that he worked on in between newspaper assignments.  Currently he is shooting mostly 4x5 color film.  Addis states, "I think the relevant point about my working process is that I've switched to large-format color work because it suits the quieter direction my work has been taking. After years of covering breaking news for the newspaper, I found myself wanting to continue doing documentary work, but in a more subtle, analytical way."

Recently Addis has been accepted into The Summer Show Project 2011 at Foley Gallery in New York, which offers him the unique chance to work directly with the Foley Gallery to create new work which will be curated in a group exhibition in June 2011.  He was also awarded the Center for Emerging Visual Artists 2010-2011 Fellowship. Work from his Peru trip has been featured in the Daniel Cooney | Fine Art Holiday Emerging Artist's Auction, the New Normal exhibition at the Center for Fine Arts Photography in Fort Collins, CO as a Juror's Honorable Mention, as well as winning a Juror's Award in Photography 30 at the Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, NJ.  He has been in numerous exhibitions, has won countless awards, and has been in many high profile publications such as Burn Magazine, Leica Fotografie International, and Black and White Magazine. Addis has had a successful career which shows no signs of slowing down.

Image: Walter Fuentes Arias,  president of the Asociacion Los Angeles de San Antonio settlement in Lima, Peru.