For those of you in Chicago, several of my large prints in my online store are now available for sale in person at the wonderful vintage/modern furniture boutique Post27 on 1819 W. Grand Ave, Chicago. I’m excited because it’s one of my favorite stores in the city!
Pictures for the Chicago Olympic Bid Part 1
By admin in Portraits, Recent Work, SportsIn 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…
Prints for sale in my store
By admin in News, Recent WorkI 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!
PRINT Magazine 2009 Regional Design Winner
By admin in Awards, NewsI 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.
Tags: Freimuth, Michael, Print Magazine, Proximity Magazine, Regional Design Awards
New Owen Music Video Released
By admin in Recent Work, VideoThe 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:
Tags: Good Friends Bad Habits, Music, Owen, Polyvinyl Records
Project: Greater Chicago Food Depository
By admin in Business / Industry, Documentary, Portraits, Recent WorkI 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.
Tags: Chicago, Food, Greater Food Depository, Recession, Reportage, Time Out
Owen Portrait
By admin in Music, Portraits, Recent WorkI 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).
We’re now working on a music video for the first single of his next record.
Tags: Music, Outdoors, Owen, Polyvinyl Records
My trip to the Badlands
By admin in Landscape, Recent Work, TravelLast 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.
Tags: Badlands, camping, landscape, Road Trip, South Dakota
I’m shooting a new White Sox campaign
By admin in Recent Work, SportsI’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.




























