Jason Miccolo Johnson is a nationally known award-winning documentary, editorial, and portrait photographer. The native Memphian is a Howard University alumnus who perhaps is best recognized for his trademark “visual call-and-response” shooting style with poignant images that focus on the subject's eyes and hands. Nowhere else is this more evident than in his book and national traveling exhibition, Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship Experience (foreword by Gordon Parks).

Johnson has taken exclusive photos of some of the world's most recognizable persons including Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Princess Diana, 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 contributed to more than 18 books, 50 magazines, and numerous Web sites. The books include Cooking Up South, Family Pictures, Songs of My People, Standing in the Need of Prayer, Q, The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, Kentucky Sunshine, Black Mothers, Songs of Praise and Celebration, and Committed to the Image. Magazine titles include, Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian, Glamour, Essence, Christian Singles, Ebony, and Black Enterprise.

His photos have also appeared in two movies, Guest Who and a documentary on W.E.B. DuBois, and two major Smithsonian Institution exhibitions, Reflections in Black and Speak to My Heart. His photography is in the permanent collections of the St. Louis Art Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Johnson has appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN Book TV, WUSA TV, WAVY TV, FOX5 TV, The Joe Madison Show, Heaven 1580 AM, and Radio One.

Johnson is highly respected by his peers for his professionalism and knowledge of book publishing and entrepreneurship. He lectures at conferences and universities on photojournalism, documentary photography, entrepreneurship, and the Black Church. He has spoken at the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond and the University of Illinois in Carbondale. He was the visionary organizer of the 90th birthday tribute to legendary photographer Gordon Parks in 2002 that brought 90 of the nation’s top African American photographers to New York City in Mr. Parks’ honor for an historic group photo and dinner.

Johnson is a former photo editor for USA Today’s Sports Weekly, and production assistant at ABC Network News’ Good Morning America. For 25 years, Johnson was the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s general conference photographer and since 1990 has been the annual convention photographer for the National Association of Black Journalists.

Samples of his photography can be seen at www.miccolo.com. Call 202-387-6525 for more information.

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