Currently Josh is a freelance Director of Photography and lighting camera operator for both national and international broadcast television shows. He has focused most recently specifically on culinary, cultural, adventure, and travel genres where multiple, cross shooting cameras are a necessary.
Recent credits for Josh include Travel Channel鈥檚 season one-three of the new series 鈥淏izarre Foods: Delicious Destinations鈥� and he is currently filming season four. In addition, he is coming up on his fifth year on the road with the Food Network鈥檚 hit series 鈥淒iner鈥檚, Drive-Ins and Dives鈥� as well as recently completing filming for 鈥淏BQ Pitmasters鈥� season six for Destination American. Some other credits include Food Network鈥檚 Extreme Cuisine with Jeff Corwin, Seasons 1 and 2 (2009); Giada鈥檚 Weekend Getaway, Seasons 1 and 2 (2008); Cooking Channel鈥檚 FoodCrafter鈥檚, Season 1 (2010).
He has received four Heartland Emmy awards 鈥� 2003, Videography, Non鈥攏ews composite; 2004, Photography, General Feature; 2005, Videography, Documentary: Cultural/Artistic; 2005, Photographer, Educational Programming. He is also a two-time Telly Award winner.
Josh鈥檚 most memorable moment at Parkland was 鈥渨alking the halls of Parkland, I happened passed the university brochures featuring all of the schools of study at different schools and my eye went straight to Radio/Television Production at SIU-Carbondale. After that, I explored the studio at Parkland where I saw students working with cameras and equipment and I was sold!鈥�