Jamie Johnson Photography

Jamie Johnson is a photographer specializing in children documentary projects and well as wet plate collodion photography. As a mother and documentary photographer whose bread and butter comes from photography, Jamie's passion for faces of the next generation has been a life long focus. She has traveled the world, capturing images of children and childhood around the globe. From Laos to Cuba, from the Amazon to Mongolia, 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 wet plate collodion series, Vices, has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums from Los Angeles, London, and Paris, has been published in dozens of magazines, and is in the permanent collection of several museums. Her documentary work with children has been included in the Critical Mass Top 50 in 2017 and 2019 and has a huge collectors base of A-list celebrities.

Her first monograph, Growing Up Travelling, was published by Kehrer Verlag in September 2020, and has been named Best Book of 2020 in many popular publications. In Fall of 2021 she won Photographer of the Year 2021 for her work with the Irish Traveller children.

AWARDS

2021

Photographer of the Year, PX3

2nd Place, Bartur Photo Award

2nd Place, Budapest Foto Awards (category: Book)

2020

Gold Award, International Photography Book Awards 

Best Books of 2020, All About Photo 

Elizabeth Avedon's Best Books of 2020

3rd Place, International Photography Awards (category: Professional Book, Monograph)

2017, 2019

Top 50, Critical Mass

2013

Julia Margaret Cameron Portfolio Award

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Irish Travellers: The Female Spirit, monograph published by Peanut Press

2020

Growing Up Travelling, monograph published by Kehrer Verlag

EXHIBITIONS

2024

The Travellers and The Troubles, Leica Gallery, Boston, MA

2023

Broad Strokes II: Growing Up Travelling, Leica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Travellers and Vices, Alta Vista Gallery, Paris, France

2022

Growing Up Travelling, solo exhibition, House of Lucie, Budapest, Hungary

Alternative Processes, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC 

Nomadic Lives, two-person exhibition with artist Norma I. Quintana, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, CA

2021

Berlin Photo Festival, Germany

Critical Mass Winners, The Center of Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Growing Up Travelling, Irish Cultural Center, London, England

2019

25th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

Black and White Exhibit, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

FOCUS Photo LA, Santa Monica, CA (Grand Prize)

2018

Critical Mass Winners, Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 

Made By Hand Exhibition, GALLERY 1/1, Seattle, WA

Arles Photo Festival, Duncan Miller Gallery, France

Arles Photo Festival, Little Big Gallerie, France

Vices, solo exhibition, Arc Light, Hollywood, CA

24th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

LA Art Show, The Los Angeles Center for Photography, CA

FOCUS Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA (1st Place)

Summertime, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Portraits, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

Critical Mass Winners, Festival de la Luz, Argentina

Critical Mass Winners, Cortona on the Move International Photography Festival, Italy                  

2017

Group exhibition, Soho Gallery, NYC

Collector Works, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Arles Photo Festival, Little Big Gallerie, France

Vices, solo exhibition, Arc Light, Pasadena, CA

2016

Group exhibition, Little Big Gallerie, Paris, France

Xin Art Gallerie, Arles Photography Festival, France

Still/Moving, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Collector Works, Photo LA, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Vices, solo exhibition, Arc Light, Culver City, CA

2015

Foto Fever Paris, France

Revela T World Collodionistas, Barcelona

Month of Photography Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA

Vices, solo exhibition, Arc Light, Hollywood, CA

Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA

2014

Vices, solo exhibition, Arc Light, Sherman Oaks, CA

Verge Holiday Show, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Foto Fever Paris, France

Analogue Portrait Project, Month of Photography Los Angeles, Aesthesia Studios, CA

One World, solo exhibition, Archaeology Museum, Mobile, AL

Vices, solo exhibition, Cooper Design, Los Angeles, CA

Masquerade, The New Orleans Photo Alliance, LA

Same But Different, The New York Center for Photographic Arts, NYC

2013

Grayscale, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

Street Shooting, The Los Angeles Center for Photography, Hollywood, CA

Black and White Exhibit, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

Verge New Works, Month of Photography Los Angeles, DMG Projects, CA

Verge Photographers, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Portrait and Identity, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR

Women in Photography International, Photo LA, Santa Monica, CA

Woman Photographers Biennial, Paris

2012

Professional Women Photography Exhibit, No Gallery, NYC (curated by Mary Ellen Mark)

Imagination, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

Family Dynamics, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

Plastic Camera Show, Rayko Photography Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009

Portraits of Cambodia, solo exhibition, Rhubarb Custard Gallery, Eton, England

Portraits of Skid Row Thru the Eyes of Children, solo exhibition, Two Roads Gallery, Studio City, CA

PRESS

2024

The Eye of Photography, Leica Gallery Boston: Jamie Johnson – Growing Up Travelling

Musée Magazine, The Travellers and The Troubles - Leica Gallery Boston

Photograph Magazine, The Travellers and the Troubles by Jamie Johnson and John Day | Leica Gallery Boston

2023

The Eye of Photography, Leica Gallery LA: Jamie Johnson – Growing Up Travelling

2021

ShoutoutLA, Meet Jamie Johnson: Documentary and Fine Art Photographer

Irish Cultural Centre, Artist’s Corner Baby In The Bath; a photograph from the book “Growing Up Travelling” by Photographer Jamie Johnson

2020

F-Stop Magazine, Book Review: Growing Up Travelling by Jamie Johnson

The Guardian, Grit and beauty: the lives of Irish Traveller children – in pictures

Creative Boom, Growing Up Travelling: Photographs that reveal the inside world of Irish traveller children

2019

VoyageLA, Meet Jamie Johnson

2017

Lenscratch, Jamie Johnson: Irish Travellers

aCurator, Jamie Johnson: My Journey with the Irish Travellers

2016

The Eye of Photography, Jamie Johnson, Vices

2014

The Huffington Post, Jamie Johnson: Vices, or I Will Not...