User:Joe Atlas

Joe Atlas is a Los Angeles-based commercial photographer with over 20 years experience. His portraits and still life images are used by major brands and corporations for advertising, corporate, editorial and conceptual illustration applications. Atlas works in both studio and location settings. Atlas is also the founder of BlueMoon Stock Photo Agency, which represents and licenses the work of over 80 artists worldwide. He studied photography at the University of Tucson’s Center for Creative Photography, co-founded by Ansel Adams—where he worked closely with famed photographers W. Eugene Smith and Harold Jones. He then attended the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California, receiving his bachelor’s degree. Atlas is the winner of the Nikon Young Photographers Award showcasing the works of 10 photographers from around the world which were later published in book form.