Today we’d like to introduce you to Joseph DeSio.
Hi Joseph, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
It all began in high school with a class that I had to choose as an elective. The class was a photography class, a class I thought would be a breeze. Take a few snapshots and boom done.
Well, it didn’t work out quite that way. My first assignment was to tell a story with photos. I took B&W photos of a friend and told a story of loneliness and despair. The class also taught us how to develop black and white film. That’s when I fell in love with photography, it was like a picture in your mind appearing on paper before me.
After high school, I attended college for engineering. While in college, I got involved in various extracurricular activities, photography, and the concert committee. The concert committee allowed me to learn stage lighting, set-up, and operation. I worked on many concerts that came to the campus, artists such as The Pointer Sisters, Hall and Oates, and Livingston Taylor (James Taylor’s Brother). Wow, I just realized I’m giving away my age. hehe. Anyway, the stage lighting helped me in understanding how light is used to set a mood, sad, happy, bright… etc.
I have been in the entertainment arts for many years. After college as a lighting designer creating striking stage lighting and effects for local rock bands out of the Boston Mass area. I also wrote, produced, and recorded my original songs. I continued with my love for entertainment and started a Disc Jockey business working at nightclubs, performed at weddings and private parties including working at WCTK radio station in Providence RI. My work at the radio station gave me the opportunity to voice-over commercials which opened an avenue to becoming a voice-over artist. I have voiced over commercials for radio and TV, industrial training videos, and as an announcer for the Schick Razor company annual sales and product launch meeting.
During my career, I have continued with photography, taking pictures of street scenes, landscapes, live music shows, products, and people. My love for photography has created another business opportunity and Joseph DeSio Photography was born.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I will say it was a smooth road as this was not my main way of revenue generation. I think that’s what kept me interested, there was no pressure to make the monthly nut.
Of course, the one challenge that affected everyone, obviously, was the pandemic. I do believe, even with that pause in the rat race, it gave me the opportunity to create for myself and expand my artistic view. It allowed me to appreciate my surroundings more.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am employed at a manufacturing company as a Project Manager. The company produces air brakes for commercial vehicles and I manage projects for air compressors.
I’m proud of my ability to lead a project team without authority. Trying to get people to respond without have authority over them is difficult and it requires a true understanding of personalities and how to deal with the different personalities. I do this well.
As an Artist/Creative I have my photography business where I specialize in Headshots and Portraits. I also get to create and collaborate with some of the most talented models and artists in the low country. I enjoy so much working on a concept with one of the many talented and then seeing that concept in a publication. There is complete happiness for the model and a whole lot of pride for what we accomplished being published locally and internationally.
As I think of the question “What sets you apart from others?” I’m not sure there is one thing, I think it is a style, a look, the composition, and perspective. But I think this is true with every other photographer as well, but most of all it is how others view my work and what they see and like or dislike that sets me apart. I guess it is what emotion I instill in them.
Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
My favorite memory was going to a major league baseball game. I was around 10 years old and my dad brought me to Fenway Park in Boston to see the Boston Red Sox play against the Baltimore Orioles. When I think of how green and manicured the field was and how you could see all the action. Not like on TV where the focus is on where the camera is. When I think of that day I can still smell the peanuts and hot dogs… it was magical!
Contact Info:
- Email: josephdesiophotography@gmail.com
- Website: josephdesiophotography.com
- Instagram: @josephdesiophotography
- Facebook: Facebook @josephdesiophotography
