About Ed Wargin
Ed Wargin is a professional photographer with more than 25 years experience shooting award-winning books, commercial campaigns and editorial stories for clients across the globe. Originally from Duluth, Minnesota, he began his photographic career by honing his lens work amidst the ever-changing and dramatic shores of Lake Superior.
While still a young, emerging photographer, he ventured out to the western states to gain new photographic skills and experiences by working in various capacities on large-scale commercial photo productions. Over time, his love of the changing seasons and freshwater won out, and Ed found himself back in the heart of the Great Lakes. Since that time, much of his career has been dedicated to pursuing the creation and assemblage of the finest collection of Great Lakes imagery ever held on film.
In this, he hopes this collection will serve not only as a major art project, but also as an historical archive of Great Lakes imagery for the future, when film will no longer be readily available, if available at all.
His poignant and beautiful images are often seen in books, magazines and other media-rich environments, as well artistic exhibits for public and private display. Some of his clients have included GMC Motors, Inc., Caterpillar Tractors, Arctic Cat, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Orvis, Inc., Woolrich, Inc., Johnson Motors, L.L.Bean, Monsanto, as well as editorial clients such as Newsweek, National Geographic Traveler, The Boston Globe, Natural History Magazine, Gray's Sporting Journal, Paddler Magazine, Progressive Farmer, Traverse Magazine, HOUR Magazine, Detroit Home Magazine, Indianapolis Monthly Magazine, and book publishers such as Voyageur Press, Sleeping Bear Press, Huron River Press, Rodale Press, Capstone Press, Ann Arbor Media Group and more. Recently, his landscape images were selected for billboard placement around the Great Lakes region to celebrate Michigan’s natural beauty in the national tourism campaign titled “Pure Michigan.”
Ed Wargin is also a noted speaker on topics of art and nature, photography, Great Lakes issues, and more. He also conducts workshops and visits educational systems as adjunct faculty, guest teacher, or workshop leader.
Ed spent more than a decade in Michigan, which he considers to be the heart of the Great Lakes. Today, he makes his home in Minnetonka, Minnesota, but spends much of his time working along the freshwater shores and within the states of the entire Great Lakes region. If you would like to arrange for Ed Wargin to visit your school, university, community group or corporation, please contact us here >
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