Joshua Cogan is an Emmy Award-winning Photographer, Anthropologist and Ethnobotanist whose assignments have taken him to 65 countries to create work that expresses his deep love and curiosity for human life, culture and spiritual ecology. His work lives in print, film, digital and physical installations around the world and within major institutions. Recognition for those projects, partnerships and new approaches to cultural exchange and reciprocity has come from standard bearers of journalism such as National Academy of Television and Sciences, The Muse and Webby Awards. His feature-length documentary of New Delhi’s last magicians ghetto “Tomorrow we Disappear” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs in Toronto. His work is Part of the permanent collection of Smithsonian, The National Portrait Gallery, The National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Eye Film Institute of the Netherlands. He has been a featured speaker at TED and SXSW.

Joshua specializes in telling stories of people and the land they inhabit, whether it be 10th generation Totem carvers from Alaska or pioneers of Hip Hop in his hometown of Washington DC. The urgency that drives his work is to bring people in contact with eachother through intimate imagery that is crafted to evoke shared meaning and invite people to collective process. His Clients include the National Geographic, The Smithsonian Institution, The World Health Organization, The United Nations, Puma, New Balance, Newsweek, ESPN, The New Yorker, HBO, The Discovery Channel and many others.

Perhaps more importantly, His work in storytelling has given him first hand experience and understanding of so many of the challenges we face today, as well as the modalities of healing and possibility that have been in service of disrupting the cycles of pain and trauma that permeate our world. With his decades-long study of sacred practices alongside first nations communities, Joshua is equally focused on his work as a community builder and facilitator. Using his training in Insight Meditation and Mindfulness under his teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, as well as Peter Levine's modalities of Trauma Healing through Somatic Experiencing he founded and stewards the men’s community Journeymen, which is dedicated to restoring men’s full humanity by deepening lives through communal practice.