Stephen Johnson is a landscape photographer, designer and teacher. He has been photographing since 1973. His work has been featured in Communication Arts, Life Magazine, American Photo, Outdoor Photographer, and ABC Discovery News, among many others. His books include At Mono Lake, the award winning and critically acclaimed The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland, Making a Digital Book and the new Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography. Internationally recognized as a digital photography pioneer, Johnson's photographs have been exhibited, published and collected in the United States, Europe, Mexico and Japan. In 1994 he embarked on With A New Eye, the ground breaking all digital photographic look at American national parks, to be published in 2008. In 2003 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Canon named him to their Explorers of Light program in 2006. Stephen is well-known for his passionate lectures and love for the traditions of fine photography. His photography studios, galleries and education center are located in Pacifica, California.

Steve is widely known for his communication skills and passion as a photographic educator. Having taught at various colleges since 1979, he founded his own workshop program that same year, leading trips all over the western United States. With the Community College Foundation he helped create the Magical Digital Bus, a fully equipped Macintosh digital photo lab on a 40 foot bus, designed as a portable classroom for remote teaching. In 2006 he constructed a very high-end teaching facility in his own studio. His international teaching has led him to England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and Mexico, and on two voyages to Antarctica.

He taught for Kodak's original Center for Creative Imaging in Camden Maine during the early 1990s, numerous workshops for industry, designed digital photography programs, and has an ongoing photography, workshop and consulting business. He has lectured for leading digital and photographic industry forums: Seybold, MacWorld, Image World, VISCOM, PhotoEast, PhotoWest, PhotoPlus, Fotofusion, the Agfa Technology Expo, FOGRA (Germany), Digital 95 (Great Britain), the International Symposium on Electronic Photography at Photokina (Germany), the Lennart Nilsson Conference in Copenhagen, for the ASMP at various locations, the Maine Photo Workshops, the Santa Fe Workshops, University of California, Xerox PARC, and at Stanford University.

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