I’m Adam Furtado, and 56 Linden Street is where my story begins. It’s the house I grew up in, in New Bedford, Massachusetts — a place we call the Secret City. It’s also the place where creativity first took hold. As a kid, I loved drawing and dreamed of working for Disney, even if I never quite believed I was good enough. Art was simply part of who I was. It was also an escape from life’s difficult moments of growing up with an abusive, alcoholic step-farther.

Life took me in different directions. After serving in the Marines, I moved to California, where photography first shifted from a simple way to capture memories into something more — a true art form. Before this, a photo was just a photo, a memory.

Going to art school in my thirties helped me reconnect with the creative spark I’d had as a kid. Learning fundamentals like balance, shape, form, and symmetry opened my eyes to the world in new ways, and those foundations became the backbone of how I see and compose photographs.

Once I learned the technical side of the craft, everything clicked. Photography became both a obsession (I was way passed passion) and a profession. I was fortunate enough to teach, to start a small business with a dear friend and talented photographer, and to discover a genuine love for helping others grow creatively.

But photographs don’t happen from the couch. They come from getting out into the world. And when life shifted — when careers changed, when I moved from California to Indiana — the camera slowly found its way back into a drawer. For a while, I let photography go.

What brought me back were the people who believed in me. That same photographer friend, along with several YouTube creatives I admire, encouraged me to pick up the camera again — not for clients, not for pressure, but for myself. For the joy of making images. For the art.

And so 56 Linden Street became something new: a way to return home metaphorically, to reconnect with the creative part of me that started long before the Marines, before California, before all of it. A place to explore photography again with openness, curiosity, and no expectations.

This website is simply a space to share the images I make along the way (some from the past) — the landscapes, fragments, forms, portraits, and wildlife that speak to me — and to document the journey back to art.

Thanks for being here.