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Joe can always be seen around Boulder equipped with a camera capturing the everyday moments that define our city. Originally mentored by esteemed photojournalist Kevin Moloney at CU-Boulder, Joe has now evolved into an established multimedia journalist. He has been an editorial intern for the Boulder Weekly, covered the 2012 Presidential Election, covered action sports at Skiing Business and Copper Mountain and was awarded three journalism scholarships for his work as an editor and multimedia reporter at the CU Independent. Joe has also created several photography documentaries including The Streets of Beijing and An American Road Trip. To see more of Joe's work go to his website through this link: http://wirthwhilejournalism.squarespace.com/
Recent Content
Humans have always had a complicated relationship with weather. Ancient cultures prayed and made offerings to gods in hopes of receiving conditions conducive to growing crops. Adverse weather, then, w…
Humans have always h…
Humans have always had a complicated relationship with weather. Ancient cultures prayed and made offerings to gods in hopes of receiving conditions conducive to growing crops. Adverse weather, then, was often interpreted as displeasure on behalf of those same beings—a punishment for failing to observe proper rituals. It doesn’t take a history scholar to understand this impulse. Weather, now as then, is both an enemy and ally. On one hand, it provides everything from the raw material for food—sunlight driving photosynthesis, wind the primary method of plants spreading their seeds—to …
Sometimes, writing about art and theater feels a lot like falling down the proverbial rabbit hole as I try to find the angle to write about wandering through a haunted-theater immersive experience, ge…
Sometimes, writing a…
Sometimes, writing about art and theater feels a lot like falling down the proverbial rabbit hole as I try to find the angle to write about wandering through a haunted-theater immersive experience, getting splashed in a Halloween horror show in the basement of a spaghetti emporium, sweating through a DIY D&D in a comic shop, savoring (har har!) Sweeney Todd’s enraged high notes, and trying to quiet my howling dog in a public house. I’ve found myself in some odd and awkward scenarios. To update the metaphor, writing this column is a lot like drunk-clicking through an endless algorithm o…
Jessie Hanson
January 8, 2020
An 'old man' sings Neil Young on Pearl Street. (Photo: Joseph Wirth)
An 'old man' sings N…
An 'old man' sings Neil Young on Pearl Street. (Photo: Joseph Wirth)
Joseph Wirth
February 3, 2024
HELLO BOULDER, COLORADO! My name is Joseph Wirth and I am very proud to be one of the newest additions to the AboutBoulder.com photography team, and I also have an opportunit…
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HELLO BOULDER, COLORADO! My name is Joseph Wirth and I am very proud to be one of the newest additions to the AboutBoulder.com photography team, and I also have an opportunity for all of you too. My intentions while working with AboutBoulder can be summed up in one word: collaboration. Essentially what I'll be doing is shooting events around town and helping out some of our other bloggers with their articles, but I'll also be a blogger for another project called The Faces of Boulder. With this project I'll be going around the entire city and hiking trails shoo…
Joseph Wirth
September 16, 2014
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