Acacia Johnson

Acacia Johnson is a photographer and artist from Alaska. Her photographic process can be described as expeditionary in nature, exploring her profound connection to the landscapes of the Far North in Alaska, Scandinavia, Iceland, and beyond.

Acacia has worked as a photojournalist in Norway and has exhibited her work internationally. Her work is also included in collections at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. She holds a BFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design and is the recent recipient of a Fulbright Student Award to pursue a photo project in the Canadian Arctic for the 2014-15 academic year. She will be working as an expedition guide in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic this summer. 

Origins Statement

These images are a return to the boreal landscape of Alaska, my childhood home. In the Far North, a place not governed by conventions of light or time, hours pass in the movement of the stars, in the rush of the sea ice adrift in the tide. Together with my family, I roam this land, seeking the places and occurrences that illustrate the wondrousness I perceived as a child. Like birds and all things blessed with flight, the landscape escapes the bounds of the earth, its profound subtleties happening inside of us as much as they are happening outside. Through my camera, I construct a personal mythology for my family, in which the landscape serves as a gateway to a numinous realm, and we stand, awestruck yet at home, at the border.