Joe Picard is a multimedia artist primary working in photography and motion picture. With over ten years of experience preforming commercial, editorial, documentary, and experimental works, Joe is dedicated to the business and life that this creates.

He Is a third generation photographer and film maker. While in High School he founded a TV club and started an ongoing TV program showcasing student productions.

At Fitchburg Stage College he earned a degree in communications. In just four years he was the first student to complete both the film production and still photography tracks. As he graduated he established his company, Synchronicity Pictures. After two years in Boston working as a photographers assistant, a set photographer and having produced professional independent short films as Director of Photography he landed in Santa Fe New Mexico.

On his arrival in 2001 he quickly entangled with the efforts of the then emerging High Mayhem Studios. Since then as the moving image director, Picard has collaborated on the development of the organization, the production of seven annual-three-day High Mayhem Festivals and over 75 High Mayhem shows throughout the years.  He produced “here with your eyes”, a DVD release showcasing his multimedia collaborative efforts with the musical ensemble The Late Severa Wires, which he has worked with since 2002.

Synchronicity Pictures today is a fully functional photography studio, finishing lab, film and video production and post-production company. Clients include Site Santa Fe, The College of Santa Fe, St. Johns College, CCA, SeeThrough Films, Goler Shoes and Donald J. Pliner, Blue Lotis Films, 747Media, Rick Schmit, Julesworks, Santa Fe Opera, and Del Sol String Quartet.

Synchronicity Pictures documents weddings and other events with photography and moving image while employing a playful  documentary aesthetic and emotional motion picture film montages.

Picard has exhibited art work at the Obscura gallery, BANG!, 707 Contemporary, and at High Mayhem art shows. He is currently in post-production of “High Mayhem; Nuclei and Atmosphere” an experimental documentary.

Recently Picard and his girlfriend aerial circus performer Rain Willson (rainanya.com) have relocated to the Bay Area. He is building a network of colaborators and is eager to work in this exciting market.