Artist Statement
Before I knew it, I was imagining a way to be a photographer. I was imagining a kind of abstract focus that had not yet come into focus. Restlessness and curiosity led me to travel to places far enough away from my immediate world to have an open field. There’s a magnetism that led me to those places, to imagine what I wanted to do with my camera.
There’s a somewhat intuitive series of decisions and still I’m letting things pull me along. I’ m going along with the momentum of people’s lives. Things fall into place. That’s how AL SOL was made.

 

 

The work of Boston photographer Stella Johnson is grounded in her photography training at The San Francisco Art Institute and her advanced degree from Boston University.

Stella Johnson teaches at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and at Boston University. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico in 2003-2004 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist to Mexico, in 2006, for photographing and teaching, respectively and a Visiting Scholar to the School of Art, Northeastern University in 2007.

Her work is showcased in her monograph AL SOL: Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon and Nicaragua, published in 2008 by the University of Maine Press.

Her photographs have been collected in the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FLA, The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine and private collections.

 

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