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Matinee: 'Jeremy Koreski on Nimmo Bay'
6 July 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 560th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Jeremy Koreski Nimmo Bay.
This 2:55 video shot by Marty Clemens with Josh Blasman follows Canadian outdoor adventure photographer Jeremy Koreski as he chases the light on Nimmo Bay.
Koreski was raised in Tofino, B.C., with "the good fortune to be in and around the ocean from an early age." After his father gave him a camera when he was 13, he took photos of his friends surfing in high school.
Since then his work has focused on surfing, fishing and the life and culture of the Canadian coast. "Basically, I've just always loved the journey and the simple adventure of getting there," he says. "I love exploring new places and being outdoors all the time, and I hope to inspire people, through my work, to do the same."
It isn't always easy, though.
"You might have five minutes of light the whole day," he says. And if your subject is surfing, you might get only one or two days a year when conditions favor a photograph.
Hence the need to chase the elusive light of his homeland.
He got an assignment to photograph Nimmo Bay in 2011 "and some of the most special times I've had with the camera have been at Nimmo Bay," he says.
Light isn't the only thing he chased, though. There were those Orca whales. Also elusive. The fog didn't help either.
But he's persistent. He dove into the water and chased the herring schools he saw there.
It turns out, there's always something to chase.