Hiking at Sugarloaf Point, North Shore, Lake Superior

Jeff Korte has been practicing photography since receiving communications and visual arts degrees from St. Cloud State University in 1983. Experimentation with alternative photographic processes includes the construction and use of many types of lens-less (pinhole) cameras.

In 1991, Jeff was selected to participate in the Isle Royale Artist in Residence program and has returned to Lake Superior many times to photograph its sharpened points and cobbled beaches. Jeff’s work has been published in Black and White magazine, Minnesota Monthly, Pinhole Journal, and featured in the 2005 “Year in Black and White” calendar in the New Yorker magazine.

He is a past recipient of the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Artist Fellowship and continues to conduct photography workshops. His work can be viewed in many public and private collections.

“Korte is creating his own photographic survey of the vanishing wilderness, his unique photographs evoking both the endurance and fragility of nature — the vanishing point.”
- Excerpt from this story that appeared in Black and White magazine