Eirik Johnson

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Eirik Johnson

$1,000.00

Abandond Shack E, Crescent Lake Mushroom Camp, Oregon from the series The Mushroom Camps, 2011

Archival pigment print

11 × 14 in

Edition of 10 

In The Mushroom Camps, Eirik Johnson documents the temporary settlements and makeshift structures of mushroom foragers in the Pacific Northwest. Abandoned Shack E reveals traces of human presence within the forest, exploring themes of labor, migration, and the relationship between people and the natural landscape.

Johnson is a Seattle-based photographer whose work examines the intersections of environment, industry, and community. His photographs are held in major museum collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Seattle-based photographer and mixed-media artist Eirik Johnson has exhibited his work at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Aperture Foundation in New York.  He has received numerous awards including the 2012 Neddy at Cornish Award in Open Medium, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in 2009, the Santa Fe Prize in 2005, and a William J. Fulbright Grant to Peru in 2000.  His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.