Biographies

Kenneth C. Korfmann

born and raised in the United States, moved to Switzerland in 1969, shortly after completing his doctoral studies in Law. He pursued a career in banking and settled in Zurich. He started experimenting with photography in his early teenage years, using various analogue equipment and film. In the 1980s he acquired an 8 × 10 inch field camera and was mentored by established photographers in Switzerland. He currently uses small and medium format digital equipment. Artists whose work influenced him are the classic masters such as Eugène Atget, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Paul Strand, as well as a handful of contemporary photographers. His first public exhibition was in the United States in 1988, and since then select fine prints have been included in collective exhibitions in Europe as well as in private and institutional collections. He has published three books of photography and is a lecturer in the Visiting Artists program of the photography faculty at the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich. In 2020 he participated in a joint exhibition in Zurich with his wife under the title Defence Zones—Switzerland, which was sponsored by Leica Cameras.