My Name is Joseph W Nienstedt and I’m a Charleston, SC based photographer who currently specializes in artistic, event, & lifestyle photography. I love the human condition and finding the art in our expression.

I grew up in the suburbs of New York City where I began my artistic career in fine art and graphic design. While attending college I substituted fine art in favor of a career in music, which demanded my education be put on hold while I went on tour. After many years of experience on stage and in the recording studio, I decided to put my music career on hiatus to start a family and return to school.

Soon after the birth of my second child, My wife and I relocated our family to Charleston, South Carolina. During this time, the beauty of the landscape combined with the parental urge to document every move a child makes rekindled my artistic flame in the form of photography.

After being published in several magazines, newspapers, and blogs, I began to actively fine-tune my craft and photographic voice. The ever-evolving relationship of art and life have become my main focus and is what I strive to define in the fraction of a moment that the shutter is open.

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TLDR: I make pictures.