Ivar Wigan
Ivar Wigan
Born in Scotland, and raised in London, photographer Ivar Wigan approaches narrative and portrait scenes with a nuanced sensitivity to social interaction. Through imagery culled from intimate relationships and interactions, the photographer aims to break down barriers that society has built up around minority and youth cultures.
After apprenticing with Photographers in London’s fashion and advertising industry, Ivar spent several years working on his own documentary art projects. His first series, The Gods, shot on the fringes of the decaying American South has been exhibited in London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Following this Ivar moved to Kingston, Jamaica, and in 2017 the artist produced his second photographic series, Young Love, a collection of photographs made over two years spent living within the Dancehall music community. This was exhibited in 2017 at a solo show at Somerset House, London. His portraits of Brooklyn based artist Deadboy were shown in Coming Of Age curated by Virgil Abloh a travelling exhibition that visited LA, Berlin, Milan and Tokyo. In January of 2025 Ivar’s work was exhibited in a group show Hard Copy at Webber Gallery LA curated by Aaron Stern.
In 2022 Ivar wrote and directed his debut film, Kassandra, screened on the international film festival circuit. Kassandra now holds 4 awards.
Ivar has shot commercial projects for Louis Vuitton, Alexander Wang, Nike, Hugo Boss, Smirnoff, Capitol Records, Mixpak and Supreme.
His editorial work has been published in: Vogue, Dazed, Dazed Beauty, I-D, The Face, More Or Less, Numéro Berlin, The Guardian, The Independent, High Snobiety, Sleek, Container Love.Purple, Vice, CR Fashion Book, Let’s Panic, Heroine, Editorial, Office, Twin Magazine,
Ivar is with Academy for photography representation and is available for content & social
direction.