About Me
My name is John Koster and I’m a photographer and writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I’m old enough to retire from my daytime job this year and that’s my plan so I can move into fulltime creation with both.
I’ve been a football player, I’ve got a few powerlifting records from years ago, I was a monk for a couple of years, a social worker, a cop, and most recently spent the last six years working in sale and doing photography whenever I could.
Photography Projects
In 2011 I found myself on the west coast, living in San Francisco, traveling all over Northern California, Northern Nevada and Colorado working in sales management for a global company. I found myself in a rented condo, with all these white walls surrounding me, and wanting to put something on the walls. At first, I checked out some art sites online, and then I picked up my camera and decided I’d make colorful images and get them printed out and put them up on my walls. And that’s what I did, until one day, while walking in downtown San Francisco, I walked right into the tenderloin district and began taking pictures of all the people I came across in one of the worst urban places in the US.
