Joseph is known for creating "intellectually and emotionally dense short films" that center on the experience of African Americans in the United States.
[8] Joseph previously worked as an assistant to the photographer Melodie McDaniel and at the commercial film production company Directors Bureau in Los Angeles.
[1][9] Joseph has directed music videos for Blvck Spvde(Black Spade), Flying Lotus, Shabazz Palaces, Sampha, and Kendrick Lamar among others.
Joseph was the original director approached by Beyoncé Knowles to direct the companion film to her 2016 concept album Lemonade.
[10] Knowles eventually remixed much of the film with a number of different directors, and has since allowed Joseph's version of Lemonade to be screened only at art museums.
[1] In 2014, contemporary artist Kara Walker curated the ICA Philadelphia exhibition Ruffneck Constructivists and included Joseph's 2011 music video for Shabazz Palaces Black Up and the 2012 short film Until the Quiet Comes for the titular Flying Lotus song.
[11] In 2015 The Underground Museum presented the exhibition Oracle, displaying works by Joseph and his contemporaries Henry Taylor, Kandis Williams, and Ruby Neri alongside rarities from The Jeremiah Cole Collection of Arts d’Afrique.