John Piepkorn is a professional photographer from Minnetonka, Minnesota. He graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He has lived in and traveled across North Dakota for over thirty years. Always fascinated by the abandoned places he passed, he started to capture images of these places in an artistic way. The advent of digital photography has enabled him to capture and manipulate the images to fit his vision. He has exhibited his photography in a number of galleries and has had images featured in a number of publications. John lives in Minnesota with his wife, Ann, and two sons, Anders and Gunnar.