SUE JOHNSON
Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies

Camille Currie before her 50th and last fight as an amateur fighter. From the recent project, Boxing Lessons.

Johnson’s work straddles the fields of journalism, photography, and technology. In 1995, she co-founded Picture Projects to pioneer investigations in online documentary practices. Her collaborations while there include 360degrees.org—Perspectives on the US Criminal Justice System and SonicMemorial.org, an online repository for stories about the World Trade Center. After leaving Picture Projects in 2003, Johnson moved to South Africa where she co-produced Mandela: An Audio History for National Public Radio and co-founded Iliso Labantu, a collective of township-based photographers who now earn a living by selling their work internationally. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Peabody Award, the Online News Association Award, the National Press Club, the Batten Award for Innovation, and two Webby Awards. Her work has been supported by the Creative Capital Foundation, the NEA and NEH. She is currently documenting women boxers around the world. She has taught at Harvard University, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism New York University and conducted workshops on multimedia storytelling in Europe, Mexico, and the United States.

www.suejaye.com

Artist Talk: Thursday, April 5, 2012, Room B-04, 6 pm