Adele Quartley Brown is an award-winning, emerging artist. She is a 2022 recipient of a Saltonstall Foundation Artist In Residence Fellowship in Photography. Adele relies on her cumulative experiences as an author, investigator, and consultant to NGOs to inform her photography, focusing on the intersection of perception and misconception.

In 2021, The Billboard Creative selected Adele's photograph, "Birthing Clinic Road" as one of 25 images by emerging artists to be displayed on billboards for its annual juried exhibition in Los Angeles. Also in 2021, two of Adele's series received First Place awards in the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards competition in the categories "Pandemic" and "Cell Phone" photography. A third series was Runner Up [ People]. This is the third year that the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards have honored Adele's work.

A series from her "Blending In" project received Third Place in a juried competition at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in October 2021.

Adele's work has been exhibited internationally and domestically, most recently at the Barcelona Foto Biennale in December 2021. And in the United States in Texas, Rhode Island, Oregon, and California.