Joshua Lutz is an American photographer and educator. He was born in 1975. He is Professor of Photography at Purchase College, SUNY. Earlier he taught at Bard College, the International Center of Photography and Pratt Institute. He has an MFA in photography from Bard College and the International Center of Photography (2005).
His books include Meadowlands (powerHouse Books, 2008), Hesitating Beauty (Schilt Publishing, 2013), Mind the Gap (Schilt Publishing, 2018) and Orange Blossom Trail (Image Text Ithaca, 2024). Time, Photo District News and PhotoEye have named his books among the best photography books.
Hesitating Beauty is a personal story about his mother and mental illness.
Orange Blossom Trail has 150 pages. It pairs his photographs with three texts by George Saunders. Lutz says the project grew from a photograph of a man holding an orange, made for Mind the Gap.
