Urban Eden: San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park

Urban Eden explores San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park combining Johnson’s new original photographs with his work made over the past 30 years joined with a rich selection of historic images and maps.

50 Years of Space Photography

Photographer Stephen Johnson has curated, edited and printed and exhibition of new prints from over 50 years of Space Photography. This mind-blowing journey of a Space Photography Exhibit evolved out of Steve’s longterm interest in the space program and views offered of the heavens and by spacecraft far away. This is an expressive look at photographs from NASA and others parading wonders of the very large and distant in this printed exploration of photographs Steve had been gathering for years.

50 Years of Space Photography. Our Moon, Solar System, and the Universe Beyond.

Life Form

This exhibition is the first images set from Stephen Johnson’s new Life Form work made during from 2013 to 2018. Selections from the Life Form exhibition premiered at PDN PhotoPlus in New York City 2017 and a full exhibition at the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, CA during March 2018. It id now on display at Stephen Johnson Photography at the Pacifica Center for the Arts.

Exquisite Earth

This exhibition is a gathering of photographs by Stephen Johnson of work made from 2005 to 2010. This first exhibition is drawn exclusively from his work with Canon dSLR systems. The grouping is called Exquisite Earth and is meant to convey his deep appreciation for this extraordinary planet we call home.

With a New Eye

With a New Eye is a digital photographic survey of selected American National Parks from 1994 through 2006. The project employed a BetterLight digital scanning insert in a Sinar-X 4x5 camera, and a Macintosh laptop for completely portable large format digital photography of extraordinary quality. The camera is capable of color, black and white, and infrared photographs of extremely high resolution and dynamic range (6000x8000 pixels, 140MB files with more than 11 stops of exposure latitude).

The Great Central Valley Project (1982-1985)

An exhibit and book using landscape photography to examine this dramatically human-altered agricultural heartland of California. A project by co-Photographers Stephen Johnson and Robert Dawson. Johnson was Editor and Designer of book published by University of California Press in 1993.

At Mono Lake (1978-1984)

A touring exhibit and book portraying this endangered and ancient lake with work by 48 photographers spanning 110 years of photography of eastern Califorina's Mono Lake. Exhibit Coordinator and Ditector. Curated with Al Weber and Don Worth. Book editor and designer.

Rock and Roll

A series of photographs from the 1970's and now restarted digitally in 2005.

Western Artifacts

An exploration of constructed icons on the western landscape that symbolize our attitudes toward land use and the culture of the west.