Ten years ago, in the introduction to The Flyfish Journal's gallery of Jeremy Koreski’s photography in issue 6.1, Colin Wiseman wrote: “Jeremy Koreski is a son of the ocean.” It sounds hyperbolic, until you start flipping through the images, or scrolling through the work available on Jeremy’s website, or—ideally—viewing his work at his one of his galleries in Tofino or Vancouver, British Columbia. Water is a major player, almost always present in some form. Sometimes he’s in it, sometimes he far above it.
This fisherman's son from the west coast of Vancouver Island has tapped into something fathoms deep, and it runs through a prodigious body of work where the line between commercial, editorial, and artistic is often blurred to showstopping effect.
Koreski has worked with Patagonia, YETI, Quicksilver and Vans, among many others—meaning you’ve likely seen plenty of his images. His list of editorial contributions is equally long, including, in addition to The Flyfish Journal, work for The Surfer’s Journal, Conde Nast, Outside Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, and ESPN.
In 2015, Jeremy Koreski published This is Nowhere, a coffee-table tome organized around elemental subjects: Water, Wind, Earth, Fire, and The Unknown. He’s had a gallery in Tofino, BC, since 2015, and recently opened a new space in Vancouver, BC, called the Wild Space gallery.
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