Jamie Johnson
The American photographer Jamie Johnson has been traveling around the world for 20 years and is best known for her touching portraits of children. Jamie’s passion for the faces of the next generation has been a lifelong focus. She has traveled the world capturing images of children and childhood around the globe. From Laos to Cuba, from the Amazon to Mongolia and around the world and back, she has found a universality in the world of children and her passion grows stronger with each new adventure. The lifestyles, cultures and traditions of growing up around the world are closely examined in her photos and each connection she makes with her young new subjects creates lifelong friendships with the families. Fascinated by the resilience and optimism of children, Johnson uses her portraits to encourage people to respect children as the innocent, happy, precious part of the world they grow up in, no matter their race, religion, or lifestyle.
Jamie’s passion for the faces of the next generation became a lifelong focus. She has traveled the world capturing images of children and childhood around the globe. From Laos to Cuba, from the Amazon to Mongolia and around the world and back, she has found a universality in the world of children and her passion grows stronger with each new adventure. The lifestyles, cultures and traditions of growing up around the world are closely examined in her photos and each connection she makes with her young new subjects creates lifelong friendships with the families.
Her work has been exhibited Internationally and is in permanent collection of several museums. She has won top 50 of Critical Mass in 2017 and 2019 and has a huge collectors base of A list celebrities. Jamie currently lectures on documentary photography at universities and festivals around the world. Her monograph “Growing Up Travelling” was released Sept 2020 Published by Kehrer Verlag and won several awards for best photo book in 2020. Her second book, The Female Spirit, was published by Peanut Press in 2024. She recently won Photographer of the Year for her work with the Irish Travellers and has been named one of the Faces of Leica 2024.
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