Joseph O’Neill was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1965 and has no formal education in art. He has been an active photographer for the past two decades and, as a self-taught artist, is unafraid to try different techniques. His work has been influenced by Eugène Atget and later Man Ray. He has recently experimented with chemigrams, photograms, phytograms and lumen camera-less photography. His work has appeared in group and solo exhibitions worldwide, predominantly in New York City and Europe. His practice explores light, shadow and transformation through photography and camera-less processes, reinterpreting everyday environments and architecture through abstraction, chance and material experimentation, blending representation with painterly gesture.