Leo Kim is a free-lance photographer who was born to Korean parents in what
was then Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China. He eventually made his way to
the United States, working and studying at North Dakota State University.
In 1985 he made a permanent move to Minneapolis. The current exhibit is
part of a project containing over 50 images of North Dakota which were
eventually published as a book, "North Dakota Prairie Landscape,"
(available at the Luther College Book Shop).
Kim says of the images,
"Rather than depicting everything I see in everyday life, I'm selecting
images as I go about, when I'm shooting. None of them is planned. They
just happen. For every photo that I have produced so far, I may have
stopped at eight, ten different places. What I do is go to a place I think
might be intersting, then try to have the patience to let the photograph
come to me. Sometimes it takes a couple of days waiting."
