Josh Anon is a product management consultant, a product management instructor at Product School, and a professional photographer. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in computer science, he spent the first 10 years of his career at Pixar Animation Studios. There, he worked in a variety of roles. He started in the software-development group, helping to build workflow tools, and moved to the production group, working primarily as a camera and staging artist (cinematographer/layout artist) on various films.
From Pixar, he moved to Lytro, Inc. as a senior product manager, where he gained experience with developing and marketing a disruptive product. Josh led cross-disciplinary teams across the company as product owner for the Lytro Mobile app, Lytro Illum, and more. After Lytro, while trying to start his own film studio, Josh worked as a product consultant for a variety of companies and began working with Product School, designing their curriculum. He has also built and shipped a number of apps independently, including the popular FlipBook animation program for iOS. Most recently, he was a Director of Product management at Magic Leap.
Josh has also traveled the globe searching for the next great picture, be it 100 feet deep on the Great Barrier reef, on a cold and windy beach in the south Atlantic, or in the Arctic Circle. His images, represented by the prestigious Jaynes Gallery, have appeared in a variety of galleries, calendars, and other publications, including The Smithsonian, The San Diego Natural History Museum, California Academy of Sciences, Nature's Best, Photo Media, The Kiteboarder, and more. Josh, along with his mother Ellen, is the co-author of a number of photography books, including See It: Photographic Composition Using Visual Intensity (Anon and Anon, Focal 2012), Aperture 3.3 Portable Genius (Anon and Anon, Wiley 2012) and Photoshop CS5 for Nature Photographers (Anon and Anon, Sybex 2010).
Outside of work, Josh can also be found at the beach kiteboarding.
