ABOUT :

Joe Wigdahl is an award-winning portrait and landscape photographer who works in advertising, editorial and design. He approaches what he shoots with an eye that looks for beauty in realism- whether the subjects and the settings are real or part of a fully produced shoot he aims to give the viewer a sense that what they’re looking at is a genuine moment that was captured. His cinematic, reportage style is used to convey a sense of the dramatic and beautiful in everyday details and moments.

He lives in Chicago and spends the better part of his winters in Sydney, Australia. He takes and makes pictures and is an occaisional glassblower.

Joe is not (but wishes he were) a seafarer, a knife-fighter, an agricultural innovator, a marsh-dwelling fisherman, a poet hobo, a sponge diver, a swiss cowherd, a prison tattoo artist or an old guy who sips muscatel and plays bocci ball in the shade of trellised vines.

AWARDS :

2009
PRINT Magazine Regional Design Awards-
Magazine cover

2008
AltPick Awards Design: Ad Campaign

2007
PDN / Photo District News Photo Annual Winner: Category- Corporate Design / Photo Products
Nominee- Best Picture in Fine Art Category Nominee- Best Picture in Abstract Category

2006 -International Color Awards
Nominee- Best Picture in Fine Art Category Nominee- Best Picture in People Category