WASHINGTON, DC.- Welcome to the Growing Up Travelling by Jamie Johnson: Exhibition Reception! Join the gallery on Thursday Aug 29 2024 at 6:00 PM at the Leica Store Washington DC for an evening of art and culture. Explore the captivating photographs by Jamie Johnson that showcase the unique experiences of Traveller children. Immerse yourself in the stories behind each image and mingle with fellow art enthusiasts. Don't miss out on this opportunity to appreciate the beauty of travel through a different lens.


Alan and Dan

Jamie Johnson is a Brooklyn born, LA based photographer who specializes in fine art and documentary projects around children. From Laos to Cuba, from the Amazon to Mongolia and around the world and back. Her passion for the faces of the next generation has been a lifelong focus as she travels around the globe capturing images of children and childhood.


Father and Son

Her work has been exhibited Internationally in galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York and Paris, and has been published in dozens of magazines. Her work is in the permanent collection of several American museums. She has won top 50 of Critical Mass in 2017 and 2019 and has a huge collectors base of A list celebrities. Her monograph “Growing Up Travelling” was released Sept 2020 Published by Kehrer Verlag and won several awards for best photo book in 2020. Her second book, The Female Spirit was published by Peanut Press in 2024. She recently won Photographer of the Year for her work with the Irish Travellers.


Billy

Growing Up Travelling


Ring Pop

Jamie Johnson:

I have spent my entire career photographing children all over the world. The last several years I have focused my eyes on the Irish Traveller that live in caravans on the side of the road or in open fields throughout Ireland. The Traveller community are an Irish nomadic indigenous ethnic minority. There is no recorded date as to when Travellers first came to Ireland. This is lost to history, but Travellers have been recorded to exist in Ireland as far back as history is recorded. Even with their great history they live as outsiders to society and face unbelievable racism growing up. As a mother of two daughters, I became so interested in the culture and traditions and lives of these children. I have spent many years traveling back and forth to Ireland to document these incredible children.


Family Sunday


Play Structure


Lollipop Gang