About Joseph Anthony

Joseph Anthony Hammond

Started my career as a photojournalist which I pursued for 11 years. Taking pictures of the average guy in the street, police, firefighters, heroes, sports stars, movie stars, congressman, governors, and two of our Presidents. I realized that no one is better or worse than anyone else because of their position. I also realized that every person has a story and through my life I have avidly listened to the stories I was lucky enough to hear. Also learned how to get the heart and soul of the person into the photographs I took.

Having photographed and engaged in conversations with people from many different professions and different social levels, during the last 50 years gave me the ability to figure out what made people tick in a very short time. When people relaxed and felt safe that I would not show them in a bad light, the great interviews and the greater pictures always began to happen. I want to find that moment when you feel you are everything you can be and capture it in a photograph you will be proud to show the world. Great headshots are about the interaction between the photographer and the subject. You can have the best camera and equipment, but it won’t be a great photograph without the interaction.

Some of my other jobs and experiences:

• Published my own newspaper for over 4 years with a circulation of 36,000

• Won award from the New Jersey Press Association as the best sports photographer in NJ

• Construction Coordinator for the Girard Estate, managing 160 men, working on the construction of the Philadelphia Community College

• Designed and constructed a state-of-the-art newspaper printing plant

• Wedding Photographer worked for large studio and photographed weddings independently

• Aerial Photographer teamed up with a crop duster pilot who could fly anywhere, who also became my brother-in-law.

• In charge of the first team, in the world, to develop variable data printing on a web press at Webcraft

• NJ Policeman won state and national handgun competitions

• Sailed by boat from Martha’s Vineyard down the East Coast and out through the Bahamas for three years

• Attacked by pirates in the Bahamas

• Survived 3 days at sea in a tropical storm as captain with my girlfriend who had no sailing experience until that trip.

• Owner, president, and CEO of my own printing company for 25 years, printing for local and Fortune 500 companies, some of them are AAA, JC Penny, Bloomingdales, Miami Dade College, Royal Caribbean, Baptist Hospitals, Macy’s, Ryder, and Lincoln Financial.

• Made 7 short films and 1 feature length film. The feature length film won awards at film festivals in the US and one of the short films, "Flea Market Finish Line" won awards in the US and was accepted at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the largest and oldest film festival in the world. I was producer and cinematographer on all the films and wrote the script on 3 of the films.

• Started a supplement company a few years ago. I got interested in supplements when I turned 40, after reading an article about how you start to fall apart at 40. That year is when I found the Life Extension supplement company, have been taking their supplements ever since. Four years ago, I became a wholesaler for them and have a website, HammondLifeExtension.com where I sell the best supplements in the world

I recently made the full circle and I am back into photography. Have always loved photography and love interacting with people so I decided to concentrate on head shots where I can bring out the character of a person in a portrait they can use to best represent who they are.