Dona Ann McAdams

Dona Ann McAdams (born 1954) is an American photographer known for her images of performance art, street activism, farm animals, and members of underrecognized communities, including backstretch workers at the Saratoga Race Course, Appalachian farmers, people living with severe mental illness on Coney Island, and cloistered nuns. She makes black and white photographs with a Leica M2.

In 2002 McAdams, along with her husband Brad Kessler, received the Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Prize.