Joe Leavenworth (b. 1985) is a photographer and educator currently based in Tulsa, OK.

Joe is available for editorial commissions, projects, and collaborations.

joe.leavenworth@gmail.com


Working at the intersections of documentary, narrative, and experimental photography, Joe intimately examines the shaping of personal identity across themes of family, community, place, and memory. Joe received his MFA from UC Riverside and holds a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is the recipient of the Gluck Teaching Fellowship (2016 & 2017), finalist for The Print Center’s 95th Annual Award juried by David Campany and Larissa Goldston (2020), finalist for the Kodak Film Photo Award's New Project Award (2019), and nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation's Emerging Artist Grant (2018). Joe's first monograph, "Native Son," was published by VUU (2014 & 2015). Inspired by the writing of his birth mother, Joe imagines and traces his autobiographical connection to the American South. This artist book of photographs and text is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Joe has exhibited widely, including the recent exhibition "When in Athens," organized by The Humid, Athens, GA. His pictures have been published in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, W Magazine, The Fader, FT Weekend, Paper Journal, and Burnaway, among others. Joe has taught photography at UC Riverside, The Cooper Union, and the International Center of Photography. He is currently preparing to publish his second monograph, "Ayngel," in Spring 2022.