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Greater Chicago Food Depository

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:53:37 +0000

I’ve been doing quite a bit of new work with the Greater Chicago Food Depository since I shot a photo essay covering their efforts last fall in Time Out Chicago. They really liked the images that I shot for that project and they’ve asked me to be part of an ongoing series that they’re calling “The New Normal” -its purpose is to document the unabated demand for food aid in the Chicagoland area since the recession began. We’ve been going to various pantries around the Chicago area taking pictures of the pantries, the people who offer help and the people who seek it. I’ll be posting images and galleries from those shoots in coming weeks.

Operation Blessing

Below is an image that I shot for the cover of their 2010-2015 strategic plan. It’s a picture of a large, self-sustaining organic garden that has been grown by the inmates of the Chicago Sheriff’s boot camp program. It places highly at-risk youth who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes in an environment that aims to turn them around. Part of their education involves a healthy diet and learning how to grow healthy food and provide for themselves and others. The excess food that they produce goes to help out the needy at local pantries.

Benefits Selling Magazine

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:49:49 +0000

A few weeks ago I shot the cover of Benefits Selling Magazine and the images to go alongside the feature article about Senior Vice President of Marsh, Steven Ginsburg- he’s in charge of putting together insurance benefit products for the largest benefits provider in the world.

Portrait of Steven Ginsburg

Steven Ginsburg

Chicago Magazine- Organic Farmers

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:57:29 +0000

In this month’s issue of Chicago Magazine there’s a story that I shot on 6 natural / organic farmers that have been leading the trend towards local, healthy organic and natural foods in the Chicago area. I spent over a month last summer driving around Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin meeting the farmers, taking pictures of them and their products and talking about great food. It was one of my favorite editorial jobs that I’ve ever had.

Cody Hudson Book

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:59:26 +0000

Cody Hudson of Struggle Inc recently published a book of post cards and the cover is a portrait that I took of him a little while back.

When it comes to people like artists and musicians I usually find that their work is more interesting than what they look like.

Cover image and portrait of Cody Hudson

Pictures for the Chicago Olympic Bid Part 2

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:56:16 +0000

More shots that I did for the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid. You can see the first part here.

Communication Arts feature on Energy BBDO

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:21:47 +0000

In the latest Communication Arts- Illustration Annual 51- there’s an article covering Chicago ad agency Energy BBDO with 2 of my shots for the Chicago White Sox as leading images.

Via Tania covers Fever Ray

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:36:20 +0000

This is a video I shot of Via Tania performing a cover of Fever Ray’s “If I Had A Heart” on a beach in New Zealand in March.

Pictures for the Chicago Olympic Bid Part 1

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:04:15 +0000

In September of last year I was asked, along with prominent Chicago photographers Sandro and Saverio Truglia, to be part of a project for Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics which was being put together by Ogilvy & Mather. The task was to go around Chicago and capture real Chicagoans passionately pursuing sports in the city- whether they train and hope to be professional athletes someday or they’re a couple of friends grabbing a pick-up game while the weather is nice. There was a film portion shot by Leslie, Paul and Mark Dektor of The Cartel and we had 4 days to shoot whatever we could before we had to hand in the images to go to Copenhagen the following week.

This is some of what I shot.

Check back soon for more…

Via Tania in Australia

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:36:14 +0000

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

Prints for sale in my store

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:30:24 +0000

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!