Adam graduated from film school Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario in 2003, and has been pursuing film/photography ever since moving to Toronto, in the same year.In December 2007 Adam was awarded American Photo of The Year from American Photo magazine for his unique miniature photography work with bees. He constructs each photograph as a diorama, sculpting each element by hand and photographing the set. Makarenko uses these constructed realities to tell a story, otherwise impossible through conventional photography. Makarenko has garnered incredible notoriety as a photographer, including having won the coveted Bright Spark Award, published in The Magenta Foundations Flash Forward 2008 annual publication.During 2008, Adam also co-created a stop motion music video with Alan Poon, entitled In Our Talons by the Bowerbirds, which was voted as one of the top 20 video’s in 2008 by SPIN magazine.Recently, Adam has completed two more music videos: One for Zeus called How Does it Feel, and one for Broken Social Scene called Forced to Love. Forced to love was voted #3 on the 2k10 in Review: The Most Technologically Innovative Videos of 2010. It has also been nominated for Juno Award in 2011.
