Joseph Seif is a Los Angeles and San Francisco-based director of photography and photographer specializing in underwater imaging. With over 15 years of commercial cinematography and photography experience, he has lensed advertising and promotional campaigns for the likes of Toyota, Levi's, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Visa, Airbnb, Google, Sting, Metallica and many other high-profile clients.

While attending the Global Cinematography Institute in Los Angeles, Joseph trained under legendary directors of photography Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC and Yuri Neyman, ASC. His narrative and television credits include Ground Control, A Day, Henry Miller: Prophet of Desire, The Auditor, Lost Love, and Rebel in Rising. His second feature film, Tellers, was theatrically released in June 2019, and several of the short films he has photographed have been featured on the international festival circuit. His recent advertising cinematography work has won two Silver Awards at the American Advertising Awards, and his collaborations have won multiple international awards such as "Best Short Film" at the Hollywood Film Competition and "Best Story" at the London Fashion Film Festival.

Joseph is an experienced open-water SCUBA diver and has most recently used his underwater cinematography skills to film commercial projects with athletes from the USA Olympic swim team.

Joseph is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG Local 600) and is represented by Intrinsic. He is available for international and domestic projects.