Jade Lee Portelli is a Toronto-based artist and photographer.  She is a graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design and has exhibited in Toronto.  Her latest photographic series explores and documents the ephemeral beauty of the old, abandoned and desolate. Contact jadeleeportelli@gmail.com for more information.

"I've always been attracted to the mundane and often overlooked surroundings of everyday life.  In this series, I tried to focus on revealing the intrinsic beauty of places that would otherwise be old, unsightly and abandoned.  I've always admired the work of Stephen Shore, William Eggleston and Martin Parr who create compelling photographs of their ordinary surroundings".

Buffalo 1 - Award Winner 2009

Art Gallery of Peel 36th Annual Juried Show

-Jurors' Award