Felipe Jasso is a Mexican Canadian photographer and visual artist based in Calgary. He graduated with BFA in Photography from the Alberta University of the Arts. He was formerly employed as a director of the Creg Gallery (AUarts). His works have diverse sources of influences such as Magical Realism found in Latin literature, Surrealism, Classicism and Symbolism. He investigates the subconsciousness, memory and his inner desires. Using iconography and esoteric narrative, Jasso brings to the forefront fragments of his experiences as an immigrant, a queer artist, and his negotiations with the Canadian landscape. Jasso finds himself trapped in the creation of his own images, between the vibrant Mexican culture and the frigid, isolated Canadian landscape. His work reflects a sense of displacement, isolation and his inner yearnings. Though, Jasso often works on subjects that imply melancholy, nostalgia, or death. Jasso also seeks beauty and positivity that stem from his unique cultural heritage in his photographs. In Mexican culture, laugher is a reaction to tragedy. Some of Jasso’s portraits are highly conceptualized, using chiaroscuro to resemble the classic ideas of divinity, and eternity.