Josephine Cardin is an award-winning photographer, actor, writer, and emerging documentary director whose work explores the intersection of identity, human experience, and visual storytelling.
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Miami, Josephine earned a bachelor's degree in art history and journalism and a master's degree in communications. A former Disney dancer, she transitioned into photography and visual storytelling, developing an artistic practice that has taken her work to exhibitions in London, Paris, Madrid, Miami, and New Orleans.
Her photography has appeared in publications including Italian Vogue, Dance Magazine, Hi-Fructose, Playbill, and over a dozen book covers.
A SAG-AFTRA actor with television and film credits, Josephine brings an understanding of performance, character, and emotional nuance to her work behind the camera.
Her experience spans photography, directing, interviewing, writing, editing, and creative production. She has also pursued studies through Sundance Collab and Gotham Writers Workshop.
Her current documentary portrait series, Portraits of People: The Unmapped Few, marks a new chapter in her work, bringing together her artistic disciplines to explore the lives of people who dared to follow their own paths.
Portraits of People: The Unmapped Few
Portraits of People: The Unmapped Few explores the lives of individuals who chose to depart from convention and follow an internal conviction.
Through intimate interviews and evocative visual storytelling, each episode reveals the unseen history behind a defining choice: what led to it, what it cost, and whether it was worth it.
The series features artists, entrepreneurs, immigrants, parents, late bloomers, dreamers, and everyday people whose lives challenge traditional ideas of success, identity, and belonging.
These are not necessarily stories of triumph or conventional achievement. They are stories of courage, uncertainty, reinvention, freedom, and the complicated beauty of living authentically.
Each film is a standalone portrait, while the series collectively explores a universal question:
What might our lives look like if we stopped following the paths others imagined for us?
Screenplays
THE LATE BUTTERFLY - 2021 (feature)
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