Joseph Labate

Joseph Labate is a photographer and Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Arizona, where he chaired the Photography program from 1996 to 2014. He works from a studio in Tucson. He has received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and grants from the Phoenix Art Museum and Polaroid of Tokyo. In 2022 he was an artist-in-residence at the Tusen Takk Foundation in Michigan, where he worked with his wife, painter and draftsperson Laura LaFave, on the collaborative series Under One Roof.