About

I am Jill Corral — an American artist, designer and writer based in Zürich, Switzerland and working around the world.

I’ve exhibited work in Tokyo, New York, Zürich, Paris, Geneva, and Seattle.

I launched JOURNAL photography arts magazine in August 2025.

Find my latest work on Instagram, Substack, and YouTube.

I am one of ten international judges for Ricoh GR Photo Festival 2025.

Artist Statement

I’m interested in stories and how they’re told. With light and sound. Darkness and silence. 0 and 1. Whitespace and form. Movement and stillness.

I work in digital and analog photography, ink, ambient music, and graphic arts. My primary work fuses atmospheric surrealism with street photography to capture the essence of places and the people in them. While best known for a black-and-white aesthetic, I also deploy color to bold effect for botanical, cookbook, and event photography. I have written articles for photography publications like PetaPixel, DIY Photography, and DigitalRev.

I am fascinated by liminal "in-between" spaces in life and art, and inspired by cinematography, graphic arts, and ambient design. I love grain and glitches. Influences include life-long multidisciplinary artists like Agnès Varda, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, Daidō Moriyama, and Yayoi Kusama. 

My professional career as a designer (visual, motion, sound) and writer in the technology industry informs my lens on storytelling, composition, technical and artistic experimentation. This includes photobook curation and publishing under my own imprint LIMINART — and helping people find their own artistic voices through creative workshops and photowalks.

A nomad in spirit, I value curiosity and creative freedom above all things. I recently spent a year living on three continents out of a small suitcase, with a Ricoh GRIII as my only camera.