Joseph Ellul was a Maltese photographer, born in Cospicua in 1907. He worked as a clerk, and started photography in/ around 1929. Most of his pictures are pre-Second world war and include photographs of events, landscapes, buildings and street photography of Malta and Gozo. The majority of his pictures are portraits, as he had a photographic studio at home where people would make use of his professional photographic services. He continued his photographic activity until the early 1970s.