My name is Joshua Colby, I am a visual artist and writer from, and currently based in, Henniker, New Hampshire. I am enrolled in my third year of the undergraduate program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and am hoping to receive BFAs in both Photography and Creative Writing.

I have had several jobs in freelance photography such as high school portraiture, event photography, environmental and staged portraits, and website development. I am particularly well-versed and interested in 4x5 large-format photography, medium format photography, 35mm film and digital formats, and photographic retouching. I am also moderately versed in Adobe programs, mounting, matting and framing, camera repairs, and gallery operations. In the past, I have won a Gold Key in photography from the Scholastic Art Awards, have been featured in NHIA’s Minumental exhibit, and was recently commissioned to create a 4x5 gallery of working class portraits for a logging company.

Photography has accompanied me on trips, so far, to Montreal and Quebec, New Jersey, Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C, and, my furthest journey so far, a walking tour of France. Travel has had the impact of worldliness upon my art: it has helped me keep in mind the overwhelming variety of different people and experiences there are on earth, and to begin seeing the world as incapable of univocality, and, instead, full of possibilities.

Until now, my photography has consisted largely of geometric abstractions of architecture, and environmental portraits of the working class. I have found supreme joy in the latter of these two, having been raised by a pair of hardworking parents, and can imagine my career heading far into the realm of environmental portraiture, documentary photography, and, eventually, social/political fine art; as I find these subjects most stimulating. I also see years of using photography and writing together: of finding new and interesting ways to juxtapose text and image, and honing my craft to a consistent, high level of quality, and spending all of my free time creating art.  

All photos on this site were taken by Joshua Colby