Joseph Michael Howarth is a commercial photographer who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. His images frequently appear on album covers, web pages, newspapers, magazines and walls.

In June of 2010, Joseph's World Cup photography exhibit Waving Flags: Toronto's World Cup Frenzy recieved a wide range of local and national media coverage including interviews on CBC radio and television, CTV's Canada AM and the Toronto Star.

In April of 2007 he returned from six months in East Africa where he worked and photographed in the urban slums of Kampala, in the displacement camps of war-torn northern Uganda and at a rehabilitation center in Rwanda's capital, Kigali.

Joseph graduated from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana with a B.A. in the Program for Liberal Studies. He studied at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications for his master's degree in photography (M.S.).

He is a frequent contributor to Toronto Community Newspapers and was a longtime contributor to blogTO.com.

He is a citizen of both Canada and the United States. Joseph has lived and worked on five continents: North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.