For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for photographs of faraway places, the painterly sensibility of his work carries a strong sense of nostalgia.
Using photography to capture a feeling, rather than a sharp reality, Jensen-Nagle is able to cultivate his iconic dream-like aesthetic.
He invites the viewer to reflect on a hazy memory, an aspiration, or a dream through a variety of techniques, ranging from shooting with long exposure time to create halo and blurred effects, to utilizing the helicopter motion to create ambiguity in the figures below him.
Joshua bases his successful full-time art practice in Toronto, where everything is produced in his west-end studio. Having mounted over fifty exhibitions in the last 12 years, he has developed a strong standing in the art world, and is collected widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Joshua Jensen-Nagle has been featured in Photolife, National Post, Galleries West, and Canadian House and Home, Canadian Art and Art in America. His work can also be found in corporate collections including Microsoft, Hilton Hotels, Target Canada Corporation, Maple Leaf, Cirque du Soleil and Transcontinental, among others.
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