Adnan is a photographer and writer, based in London.

He has worked for the Financial Times (Taliban and earthquake in Afghanistan), The Economist (foreign fighters joining the Kurds), HBO (US withdrawal from Kabul), BBC (Pakistan seventy years after Partition, Iraq fifteen years after the war), Channel 4 (Gangs in Cape Flats in South Africa, Migrants crossing from Italy into France across the Alps) & ITV (people smuggling gangs in Calais). He was second camera on the Emmy award-winning and BAFTA nominated documentary, Escape from Kabul for HBO/BBC.

He won the Financial Times Essay Prize and the Premio Luchetta Award for Reportage. He was Highly Commended at the Broadcast Awards and nominated for the RTS Journalism Award for Current Affairs (Home), long listed for Refugee Reporting Award at One World Media and shortlisted for Sandford St Martin Awards for Television/Video.

He is fluent in English & Punjabi, conversational in Hindi/Urdu and has basic Arabic & French.

Before photography, he was a television presenter for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV and edited for The Economist newspaper.