JOE WIGDAHL PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

Via Tania shot out on Mt. Buller in southern Australia.

I just finished adding an online store to my website where you can buy prints of a lot of my images that you see on my site. Here’s my store: http://www.joewigdahl.com/store/

If there’s an image that you don’t see in the store that you’ve seen in my portfolios and you’d like to buy a print, get in touch with me and I’ll see if I can make a print available. Thanks!

I just discovered that the cover that I shot for the first issue of Proximity Magazine, a Chicago art journal designed by Michael Freimuth, has won an award for Print Magazine’s 2009 Regional Design Awards. It was an image I had shot of sailboats in Belmont Harbor in Chicago as I was flying above in a helicopter. Yay!

This image recently won an award in Print Magazine's 2009 Regional Design Awards issue.

The video for the new Owen single “Good Friends, Bad Habits” has just been released. I shot and directed it a few weeks ago and the video was edited by Brittany Stover. Check it out:

I recently shot a series of images covering the Greater Chicago Food Depository for Time Out Chicago about the recession and how it’s affecting people in the Chicago area. Here’s the link.

I just posted a bunch of new images in my galleries on my portfolio website with recent work and new projects. Check it out.

I just took some new shots of Mike Kinsella for his band Owen. We decided that it should be a family portrait considering his newest addition to the family unit (pictured screaming).

The noble family unit.

We’re now working on a music video for the first single of his next record.

Last week my girlfriend and I made a trip out to the Badlands with some close friends and slept among buffalo, antelope, elk and rattlesnakes.  We ate a lot of travel food and did a lot of hiking to work some of it off. People in South Dakota make great pies.

I’ve recently been shooting several images for a new ad campaign for the Chicago White Sox. The campaign is called “Traditions” and focuses on that aspect of fandom where baseball is part of people’s everyday lives where we’re taking snapshots of a variety of situations that White Sox fans have made into traditions. The shooting is still in progress but here’s a shot that we did that has already hit the streets and is in magazines and billboards around Chicago.

It’s about kids who make a snowman into an effigy of White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, which is something that happens quite bit in the winter.