Author: Mark E. Johnson

Well worth reading: Alice Gregory at The New York Times’ Style Magazine takes a look at the role of Dorothea Lange in the growth of photojournalism as the Museum of Modern Art opens their second retrospective on her. Sigh … I may have to go to New York again … Her contemporary Ansel Adams called her pictures “both records of...

There are many great quotes in this interview with Dawoud Bey, but this resonated deeply with me: African-Americans in photographs have very often been viewed through a lens of social pathology. So, I wanted to respond to that kind of representation by making photographs that conveyed a deep, complex humanity. I want there to be real sense of interiority, to...

This is becoming a trend … Getty Images photojournalist Mark Wilson walks through his image of the president’s notes. Pay attention to his thinking behind the gear he was carrying – being prepared is key.