Joe Tresh is a freelance news, event, and nightlife photographer in Washington, D.C.. He is the first contributing photographer syndicated with Q Syndicate, the nation’s leading provider of content for LGBT publications, and is a contributing photographer to DC Agenda, the new Washington, D.C., LGBTQ news venture that rose from the ashes of Window Media's closing of the Washington Blade.

He has been photographing LGBT events for over 20 years, including historical news events such as President Obama signing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the recent National Equality March, the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in 1993, Stonewall 25, Gay Games IV, the Millennium March on Washington, and the induction of Frank Kameny’s papers into the Library of Congress.

His photographs have also been published by Der Spiegel, Advocate, Washington Post, Washington Blade, Out Magazine, Bay Windows, Windy City Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Gay News, Bay Area Reporter, Pridesource, Gay & Lesbian Times, American Bear Magazine, Fox News, and others. You can find him on Facebook and his Blog.