How to Boost the Impact of Your Photos: Interview with Steven David Johnson - a podcast by Jaymi Heimbuch - Conservation Photographer | Founder, Wild Idea Lab | Co-Creator, Her Wild Vision Initiative
from 2020-04-28T04:00
#020: Steven David Johnson is a professor of Visual and Communication Arts at Eastern Mennonite University University. At the time of this recording, he's on sabbatical. And what he's choosing to do with his time is absolutely blowing the minds of fellow conservation photographers.
Steve is working on a project called Vernal Pools of Appalachia, and through this project he is perfecting a masterful blend of art and science – the kind of elegant yet fascinating photos that are what all conservation photographers dream of creating.
From salamander egg clutches that look like galaxies floating through space, to frogs that look like Rembrandt paintings. And yet, even though there is this artistic, painterly quality, it's still very much a really natural history photo that draws us in as interested people learning more about the species that are inside of these pools. It is amazing there's so much going on here that I had to get Steve under the podcast and ask, How are you doing this? And not only how are you doing this, but why.
In this episode, Steve talks about where he finds his inspiration, how he approaches his work in the vernal pools, and what it means to him as a conservation photographer to be focused on a project about the tiny, fragile things living in these minute ecosystems.
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