Selected Exhibitions | Publications
Biography
Jason Miccolo Johnson is a nationally known award-winning documentary, editorial, and fine art photographer. The native Memphian and Howard University alumnus is perhaps best recognized for his trademark "visual call-and-response" shooting style with poignant images that focus on the subject's eyes and hands. No where else is this more evident than in his new book, Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship Experience, which Gordon Parks calls a "magnificent collection" of images.
Johnson has taken exclusive photos of some of the world's most recognizable persons including Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Colin Powell, and Oprah Winfrey. In 2003, Johnson received the ArtMaker award from the national HistoryMakers organization and in 2000 was honored with the Photographer of the Year award from The Exposure Group professional photographers association.
He has been published in more than 15 books and 50 magazines including, Songs of My People, Standing in the Need of Prayer, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, Black Mothers: Songs of Praise and Celebration, and Committed to the Image. Magazine titles include Christian Singles, Glamour, Essence, Ebony, Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian, Jet, and Black Enterprise.
His work has appeared in two major Smithsonian Institution exhibitions; "Reflections in Black," and "Speak to My Heart," and is in the permanent collections of the St. Louis Art Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His images can currently be seen in the national traveling exhibition, "Saturday Night/Sunday Morning," organized by the Leica Gallery.
Johnson is highly respected by his peers for his professionalism and insight into the future of the profession. He often lectures on photography at conferences and universities nationally. He was the visionary and organizer of the historic 90th birthday tribute to legendary photographer Gordon Parks in 2002, which brought 90 of the nation's top African American photographers to New York in Mr. Parks' honor for an historic group photo and dinner.
He is a former photo editor at USA Today's Sports Weekly, and production assistant at ABC Network News' Good Morning America. For 25 years, Johnson has been the African Methodist Episcopal Church's official general conference photographer and since 1990 the official photographer of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Selected Exhibitions
| 2002 | Evolution of the Soul, Ira Pinto Gallery (Washington, DC) solo show |
| 2001 | Committed to the Image, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY) group |
| 2000 | Eye of the Beholder, Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC (group) |
| 1999 | Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, Smithsonian (group) |
| 1998 | Portraits of African American Life, Gallery of African Wildlife and Contemporary Art (group) |
| 1998 | Speak To My Heart, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (group) |
| 1997 | 9: Celebrating the Beauty of Expectant Mothers, First World Gallery, Wash., DC (solo) |
| 1996 | Million Man March, The Hutwork Gallery, Takoma Park, MD (group) |
| 1995 | Songs Of My People, Tufts University, Aidekman Arts Center, Boston, MA |
| 1994 | Songs
Of My People, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium Songs Of My People, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea Songs Of My People, National Centre of Women, Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1994 | Georgia Avenue On My Mind, The Blackburn Gallery, Howard Univ., Wash., DC (solo) |
| 1994 | Inter-Generational Voices From Missouri's Delta, Missouri Governor's Conference on Aging, Kansas City, MO (solo) |
| 1993 | Songs
Of My People, Le Scuderie Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome, Italy Songs Of My People, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN |
| 1992 | African Americans Emerging...Still, The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN (solo) |
| 1992 | Songs Of My People, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| 1991 | National
Conference of Artists, The Charles Sumner School and Museum, Washington, DC (group show) |
| 1991 | Contrast Attitudes, Dance Place, Washington, DC (solo show) |
Biography | Selected Exhibitions
Publications
Annual Reports: Enterprise Foundation, Freedom Forum, Greater Southeast Hospital, Gannett Foundation
Books: SOUL SANCTUARY: Images of the African American Worship Experience, AN AMERICAN JOURNEY: The 53rd Presidential Inauguration, BICENTENNIAL HISTORY of the A.M.E. CHURCH, SONGS OF MY PEOPLE, MILLION MAN MARCH, BLACK MOTHERS: Songs of Praise & Celebration, COMMITTED to the IMAGE, and Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones.
Magazines: BLACK ENTERPRISE, ENTREPRENEUR, GLAMOUR, NEWSWEEK, TRAVEL & LEISURE, ESSENCE, EBONY, and TIME.
Newspapers: THE WASHINGTON POST, THE AFRO-AMERICAN, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION, THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT, and USA TODAY.