About Me

There is no place where I feel more alive, more connected to what is important, than in nature. Whether a misty forest, a rugged coastline, or an arid desert, the wild places of the world feel like home to me. While my love for the outdoors precedes my passion for photography, I now could not imagine having one without the other. Add my Land Cruiser and the open road to the equation, and the result for me is the feeling of absolute freedom, where the possibilities are limited only by my imagination and willpower.

The roots of my passion for photography took hold while I was in college, and the memories of messing around with my first point-and-shoot camera are as strong as if those moments happened but last week. Back then, I knew next to nothing about photography, but the thrill of exploring lonely lands and trying to capture the beauty of the landscape and the emotions that it stirred up in me made me feel alive like never before. Since those early days of escaping campus at Syracuse University to explore the nearby Morgan Hill State Forest, photography has taken me on a journey that my 20-year-old self could have only dreamed of. From multiple cross country road trips – including a year-long solo odyssey through the American West and British Columbia after finishing my PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins – to countless trips and treasured moments with my dad, to chasing rainbows and fall foliage with my wife and dog, exploring and photographing nature has been the driving force of my life.

Each time I press the shutter and capture a singular moment in nature, my soul awakens, and I unequivocally realize that there is nothing else that I’d rather be doing. I hope that as you view my photography, you’ll feel the same sense of awe and wonder that the natural world instills in me, and that you’ll be inspired to set forth into the great outdoors in search of ephemeral moments that will awaken your own soul and stay with you forever.

Photo of the Week

Morning sunlight strikes a loon stretching out between dives for breakfast. A morning paddle with loon calls echoing off the still water has quickly become one of our favorite ways to start a summer day.

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Welcome to the new online home of Joey Priola Photography! This new website has been specifically designed to be more aesthetically pleasing and to make it much more intuitive to order Fine Art Prints than ever before. As you peruse this new website and my Galleries, feel free to Contact Me if you have any questions. Also, if you’re interested in staying up to date on new gallery releases, having a Photo of the Week delivered right to your inbox, and receiving exclusive print sales, consider signing up for my Newsletter. Thanks, and we hope you enjoy the new website!

Photo of the Week

An iconic Pacific Northwest scene of Punchbowl Falls pouring into a rocky grotto lined with vibrant green mosses and ferns. While inspiring landscapes such as this often seem like permanent fixtures, statues sculpted from the most impervious stone imaginable, we are sometimes reminded just how fragile the Earth is. Due to the careless acts of a group of teenagers, who thoughtlessly tossed firecrackers into Eagle Creek Canyon, the Eagle Creek Wildfire of 2017 ravaged the canyon in which Punchbowl Falls resides, and the full impact of the damage remains to be seen. Prints Available.