"untitled 1:17 AM - Limited Edition 1 of 3" Photograph

Jörgen Axelvall is a Tokyo based photographer and artist from Sweden. Previous to moving to Tokyo in 2011 Axelvall resided in NYC for 15 years. He tends towards long-term projects: exploring intimacy and solitude; soft- or select-focus evoking abstracted, dream-like realms at once personal, yet universal. Axelvall attempts to seize the utter vulnerability and beauty to transubstantiate the subject into essence of the moment. Axelvall’s visual storytelling interacts with his experimental word. Axelvall exhibits internationally, and has won significant awards: International Winner, New Exposure by Vogue USA, 2013, Athens Photo Festival, 2019, and The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, 2015. Axelvall has four monographs to date. Since 2018, Jörgen Axelvall has been represented by Ken Nakahashi Gallery in Tokyo. Setting out with his preference for Polaroid to connect with the traditions of casual, studio, and illicit photography, Axelvall pursues the immediacy and tactility to preserve the thrill of each fresh encounter. Each photograph is meticulously scanned for subsequent treatment to evoke the heightened thrall and promise of each encounter. The final presentation is of utmost importance with hands-on involvement: carefully selecting printing processes and papers, designing and building unique frames, and detailed involvement in exhibition preparations. Axelvall approaches with the same fastidious care when publishing work in printed form. Setting out with his preference for Polaroid to connect with the traditions of casual, studio, and illicit photography, Axelvall pursues the immediacy and tactility to preserve the thrill of each fresh encounter. Each photograph is meticulously scanned for subsequent treatment to evoke the heightened thrall and promise of each encounter. The final presentation is of utmost importance with hands-on involvement: carefully selecting printing processes and papers, designing and building unique frames, and detailed involvement in exhibition preparations. Axelvall approaches with the same fastidious care when publishing work in printed form. Setting out with his preference for Polaroid to connect with the traditions of casual, studio, and illicit photography, Axelvall pursues the immediacy and tactility to preserve the thrill of each fresh encounter. Each photograph is meticulously scanned for subsequent treatment to evoke the heightened thrall and promise of each encounter.