Originally from Springfield, Missouri, Josh Smith earned his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 and has been living and working in the Bay Area since 2004. Smith has exhibited widely within the Bay Area and beyond, including exhibitions at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR, Center for Photographic Art in Monterey, CA, and the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, CA. His most recent work, The First Years, has been showcased in numerous publications, including Oxford American, Fotofilmic, Three Penny Review, and Zone magazine (forthcoming). In 2018, a monograph of The First Years was published by Dark Springs Press. Smith was a Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently the photography instructor at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, CA. Smith resides in Pacifica, CA, with his wife and three children.