​Joshua Irwandi is a documentary photographer and National Geographic Explorer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was part of the VII Photo Agency Mentorship Program from 2021 to 2023. His long-term work in West Papua began while he was embedded as a staff member at the Asmat Museum, where he focused on documenting the Asmat people's cultural resilience. This ongoing project, Not A Blank Canvas, received support from the National Geographic Society’s Storytelling Grant in 2021. The project later contributed to Irwandi’s collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing for its new gallery, opening in 2025.

Irwandi’s photography has also been supported by the Forhanna Foundation Fund for Young Talent and the National Geographic Society’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists. His image The Human Cost of COVID-19, published by National Geographic, sparked widespread public conversation in Indonesia. In 2021, he was invited to speak at the National Geographic Society’s Storytellers Summit and was recognized with a World Press Photo Award in the General News category. That same year, he was also named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.

His work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NHK, The Times of London, The Globe and Mail, CNN, and The Guardian.