Joseph De Sciose has been a professional photographer for more than 25 years. His expertise includes photography in horticulture, travel, features, portraits and commercial imagery. He was a senior photographer at Southern Living magazine for more than five years and was the principal photographer for three books. Joe frequently photographs for local publications and companies. Joe’s images have been extensively featured in books and magazines such as Southern Living, Birmingham Home & Garden, BBC Website, Horticulture, Country Garden, Progressive Farmer, Country Living Gardener, Fine Gardening, B Metro, Business Alabama, Hana-Midori (Japan), The New York Times Magazine and many publications for The New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He is also the sole photographer for three books: Garden Guide: New York City, (Norton Books, 2010) The Flower Gardener’s Bible (Storey Publications, 2003) which was awarded a Garden Globe Award in 2004 by the Garden Writers Association for Best Photography for a garden book and The Year- Round Vegetable Gardener, (Storey Publications, 2011, over 150,000 in print) In 2014 & 2015 he exhibited 20 large B&W fine art photographs of the Moss Rock Nature Preserve in Hoover, AL at several galleries and public spaces in the Birmingham area, Joe does pro bono photography for Tedx Birmingham, the Sidewalk Film Festival and documented the restoration of the historic Lyric Theatre in Birmingham.