joseph michael is a commercial photographer who lives and works in
toronto, ontario, canada.

his photos have appeared in national publications such as time magazine and golf canada and he has worked with a wide variety of clients from greenpeace to the hot docs festival in toronto.

in april of 2007 he returned from six months in east africa where he worked on a number of projects, including one he will use towards completing his master's degree in photography (M.S.) at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

while in africa, joseph worked and photographed in the urban slums of Kampala, in the displacement camps of war-torn northern Uganda and at a community based rehabilitation center in rwanda's capital, kigali.

in 2006, joseph's world cup project, "32 Nations, 1 City" received media attention and was featured on CBC radio and television.

in 2001 he graduated from the University of Notre Dame in south bend, indiana with a B.A. in the program for liberal studies, also known as the great books program.

he is a citizen of both canada and the united states. joseph has lived and
worked in four continents.