Lynn Johnson

Photographer
Lynn Johnson

Lynn Johnson is known for her intense and sensitive work, dividing her time between assignments for National Geographic and various foundations. Johnson has traveled from Siberia to Zambia and has photographed many famous celebrities and the entire Supreme Court.

As a Knight Fellow in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University, Johnson completed a rigorous program that included her Masters thesis, an exhibit about the hate crimes in American Society, titled “Hate Kills.” Johnson first earned a B.A. in photographic illustration and photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduating, she was a staff photographer at The Pittsburgh Press for seven years before beginning her freelance career as a contact photographer for the Black Star and Aurora Photos.

As of November 2012

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www.lynnjohnsonphoto.com/
@ljohnphoto

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Featured Photographs

  • Ethiopia, 2009 In Ticho, Ethiopia, a drawing of a man defecating elicits laughter from Hiruut Nigusee, who uses the picture in her hygiene classes. At first students were embarrassed, but now they use the latrine, wash their hands and suffer fewer bouts of diarrhea.
    Photo by: Lynn Johnson
  • Ethopia, 2009 In pursuit of water, the girl with the green ladle (center) routinely walks three hours to and from her Ethiopian village of Foro. Females here spend most of their lives fetching water; boys are exempted from the job when they turn seven or eight.
    Photo by: Lynn Johnson
  • Kenya, 2009 Tribal Gabra women in northern Kenya (right) may need five hours a day to lug jerry cans laden with murky water across the desert. A lingering drought has pushed this already arid region into a full-blown water crisis.
    Photo by: Lynn Johnson
  • Ethiopia, 2009 In the Foro district of Ethiopia, rocks cover a family latrine, and a stick acts as a handle. Surveys show that the hygiene-education efforts of WaterAid, an NGO, are working here; latrine use has risen from 6 to 25 percent since December 2007.
    Photo by: Lynn Johnson
  • Ethopia, 2009 In Shekana, Ethiopia, Halike Berisha (left) must fill her jug from a contaminated reservoir. Access to clean water is not solely a rural problem, but the challenges of delivering it are most daunting in remote places.
    Photo by: Lynn Johnson
  • Ethiopia, 2009 Installed by the NGO WaterAid, makeshift wash stations like this one—a water bottle fastened to the exterior of a grass hut, with soap nearby—are appearing in Ethiopian villages, where lack of sanitation can be as dire a problem as water scarcity.
    Photo by: Lynn Johnson
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  • Quizhou, China Toughened by a lifetime of fieldwork, the hands of an elderly woman provide loving care for her grandson, who wears a traditional hat adorned in silver. With so many young adults working as migrant laborers, obliged to spend much of their time away in distant cities, the Dong have little choice but to leave childrearing in the hands of the elderly, creating in effect a culture without mothers or fathers.
    Lynn Johnson
  • Arunachal Pradesh State, India Sunita, age 3, wears her future dowry, beads inherited through her mother’s lineage. Her family speaks Koro Aka, one of hundreds of languages unique to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Many are on the verge of extinction. One wonders whether young Sunita will still be able to speak her mother tongue by the time she marries and these beads pass to the family of her husband.
    Lynn Johnson

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