Joe is an Emmy-nominated cinematographer and filmmaker currently based between Salt Lake City and New York. Raised between Wyoming, Washington, and Alaska, the American West is where he draws most of his inspiration. Along with his handheld and intimate style, he brings a calming, empathetic, and intentional presence to every project he works on. Joe is most passionate about character-driven stories exploring our relationship to land, community, and hard to reach places. His work spans the divide and overlap between documentary and branded films.
Joe worked as primary DP on the Oscar-Shortlisted documentary short Between Earth and Sky, which won best short at Big Sky Doc Fest, and went on to screen and win awards at Hot Docs, Mountainfilm, Sheffield, DOCNYC, and many more. He has been behind the camera for multiple documentary films including HBO’s The Last Cruise and Matthew Heinemann’s The First Wave, Pyne Point and The Passengers. Joe has worked on special projects for Sony Alpha, Winston Fly Rods, National Geographic, Hulu, HBO Documentaries, The New York Times, and more.
Between 2015 and 2018 he was based in East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. His experience spans from expedition filmmaking and documentary film, to commercial production and non-fiction television. In 2022, he worked on multiple expeditions in the Arctic and in the Sahara desert of Niger. Joe has worked on projects in 20+ countries including Svalbard, Uganda, India, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and more.
He is HEFAT-certified and has his FAA Part 107 drone license.
