Photography by Joseph Rheaume

Biography

Joseph Rheaume is a fine art photographer and educator from the western U.S., his passion for photographic image making was fostered at a very young age while watching his father make photographs with a Polaroid Land Camera. An active career in music gave way to his educational endeavors in 1996 when he began his studies at Arizona State University. By 2003 he had earned degrees in Engineering (BS) with an emphasis in Graphic Communications, Technology (MS) with an emphasis in Printing, and finally Fine Art (MFA) with an emphasis in Photography. Currently, Joseph acts as a Photography, Digital Imaging / Graphic Arts Consultant on the West Coast for his own companies Black Box NW & Black Box Pacific. Joseph also teaches Photography & Digital Art part-time at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. Joseph’s passions in photography include collotype methods, photogravure printing, alternative photographic processes, and finding ways to incorporate digital technologies with these 19th and 20th Century photographic processes. Joseph possesses a variety of technical knowledge and abilities involving photography and graphic arts, he has worked in a variety of graphics industry areas and has also been involved in academia as a professor, corporate trainer, and curriculum developer in design, graphics, interactive media, and fine art photography. Joseph paints with light, and prints with ones and zeros.