To say my pictures are a personal diary of my sensitive feelings toward everyday life is a near accurate description.

Photographically speaking, I pause to admit there are sensations impossible to bring forth to full substance. What can a camera lens say of a landscape blurred by mist, or a walk in woods darkened by an approaching storm?

Joseph A. Buemi (1923 - 2007) was born in Binghamton, New York. He served in the U.S. Army in WWII and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

An artist and internationally recognized photographer, his photographs are included in many museums and private collections in the United States and Europe. He taught photography, exhibited, and judged photo competitions. An extensive collection of his photographs and papers are in the collection of the Broome County Historical Society, in Binghamton, NY.

Buemi's work, mostly black-and-white photographs, have been shown in a number of private and public galleries, including France's Musée Réattu and Bibliothèque Nationale (The National Library of France), as well as at the Royal Library of Denmark.

The Musée Réattu exhibited Buemi’s work after a request from Lucien Clergue, a famous French photographer and lifelong friend of painter Pablo Picasso, whom he met during a trip to Europe in 1963.

Buemi wrote in his Personal Statement and Technical Notes, “Photographically speaking, I pause to admit there are sensations impossible to bring forth to full substance. What can a camera lens say of a landscape blurred by mist, or a walk in woods darkened by an approaching storm (…)?”.