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Acacia Johnson

Photographer based in Charlottesville, VA

Acacia Johnson is a photographer, artist and writer from Alaska, focused on human relationships to the earth's Polar Regions. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Acacia was the recipient a Fulbright grant in Canada to... read on

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ANTARCTICA

By Acacia Johnson — Antarctica, in popular imagination, exists nearly as a mythical place. Cold, distant, inhospitable, and separated from the rest of the world by..

Nov 9, 2017

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Under The Same Stars

By Acacia Johnson — Winter in the Arctic - vibrant, pulsing. The throb of club music pours from the community hall, streets alive with the roar of skidoos and the..

Apr 21, 2017

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Origins

By Acacia Johnson — These images are a meditation on the boreal landscape of Alaska, my childhood home. In the Far North, a place not governed by conventions of light..

Jun 21, 2016

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Polaris

By Acacia Johnson — Polaris is an exploration of otherworldly occurrences in the wilderness of Alaska and Iceland. Polaris, the North Star, functions as a..

Jun 21, 2016

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Love, Death, and the Ocean

By Acacia Johnson — “Turning to face North, face the North, we enter our own subconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey North has the quality of..

May 19, 2013

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AIALIK

By Acacia Johnson — The rain came in sheets and then in waves. It pounded our shelters and soaked into our skin. We awoke to pools of water filling our forest..

May 19, 2013

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ANTARCTICA

Updated Nov 09, 2017

Animals, Antarctica, Climate Change, Conservation, Documentary, Editorial, Environment, expedition, Landscape, Photography, Photojournalism, polar, polar regions, Portraiture, tourism, Travel, Water, Wildlife

Under The Same Stars

Updated Apr 21, 2017

Aboriginal, Arctic, Baffin Island, Community, Culture, Documentary, Emotion, Environment, Family, Fine Art, Indigenous, International, Inuit, Landscape, Lifestyle, North, Nunavut, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Travel

Origins

Updated Jun 21, 2016

Alaska, Animals, color film, Emotion, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Family, Fine Art, Friends + Family, Landscape, large format, Love, north, Personal, Photography, searching, Spirituality, view camera, Yearning

Polaris

Updated Jun 21, 2016

Abstract, Animals, Emotion, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Fine Art, Landscape, Photography, Travel, Yearning

Love, Death, and the Ocean

Updated May 19, 2013

Dreams/Subconscious, Fine Art, Landscape, Norway, Photography, Water, Yearning

AIALIK

Updated May 19, 2013

Alaska, Dreams/Subconscious, Fine Art, Forest, Landscape, Nude, Photography, Water