Joseph Sohm has a love affair for America. Spanning 30 years, he photographed the 50 states and published more than 400,000 times in publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, as well as on CNN, ABC, PBS and MSNBC. His President Clinton photo is featured on the back-cover of his book My Life and in his Presidential Library. Sohm’s images are featured in Frederick J. Ryan’s portrait of Ronald Reagan, The Great Communicator; on ABC’s “The View,” Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth; NBC’s 9/11 memorial, Concert for America; on the “Today Show,” in “Night at the Museum,” and on John Grisham’s King of Torts cover.  Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report featured Sohm cover images while the State Department features his work in ten embassies. In August of 2013, the LA Times ran his photograph as it lead front-page image.

In 2000, he photographed and co-created with Marianne Williamson, “Imagine – What America Could be in the 21st Century.” In 2009 he published “Visions of America – Photographing Democracy.” In 2009, he also produced, photographed and wrote, “Visions of America – a Photo Symphony Concert for America.” In five sold-out concerts, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops performed the original score of Grammy-winning, Oscar nominated Roger Kellaway and the songs of Oscar & Grammy winning, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, with vocal performances by Grammy winning Patti Austin and narration by Clint Eastwood.

Sohm has had many additional honors, tributes and awards. He lives with his wife, artist Leslie Plimpton in Ojai, California.