Marvin Joseph

Staff Photographer @The Washington Post

US

Marvin Joseph, a native of the District of Columbia, has been a staff photographer for The Washington Post since He started snapping photographs at age 14 and began his career at The Post as a news aide at 19. Joseph interned for the Walt Disney World Company in Orlando, Florida, where he documented tourist visits and various events at the theme parks. He landed his first job as a staff photojournalist at the Press Journal in Vero Beach, FL, before working for the Palm Beach Post. In July he returned to the D.C. area to work in the Howard County bureau for The Washington Post. He now covers general assignments for the news organization. He\'s especially passionate about celebrity portraiture and fashion photography.Honors and Awards: Photographs included in the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in National Reporting; Pictures of the Year International; National Press Photographers Association\'s Best of Photojournalism; Northern Short Course; The Annual Associated Press Sports Editors Contest; White House News Photographers Association; Photographs included in The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Explanatory Reporting (documenting Specialist Robert Warren, a soldier who returned from Afghanistan with a traumatic brain injury.)