Joshua Kristal

Joshua Kristal was born in 1971 in Detroit and raised in Detroit and Huntington Woods. He graduated from an intensive 3-year photography program in Lansing, Michigan in 1994. Over his 20-year career he has worked for publications including Time magazine, The New York Times, Outside, Automobile, the Huffington Post, Vice, Story, The American, HOUR and Budget Living and many others. He has exhibited his work in New York City, Detroit, Royal Oak, Lansing and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
In 2004, he volunteered his photography services for a UNICEF allied non-profit organization in Calcutta, India. In 2005 he was honored too work at the United Nations to serve as one of the official General Assembly staff photographers. In 2009 he taught photography in the Peruvian Amazon as part of an anthropology project. In 2014 Getty Images and awarded him the “Artists Grant to work with a nonprofit organization in Southern Ethiopia that encourages young women to stay in school and out of early marriage and pregnancy. Most recently he returned from Madagascar where he worked and volunteered for several nonprofit organizations.
Working in the reportage style of photography, he strives to document and highlight details of modern life and sub-cultur...

Domestic Society of Museology NY, NY 2014
The Indian Consulate NY, NY 2010
3rd Ward Gallery NY, NY 2007
Other Wise Gallery Lansing, MI 2004
The Scarab Club Detroit, MI 2003
Janice Charach Gallery Detroit, MI 1996