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Devastating Beauty

Watershed Moments

BIOGRAPHY

Peter L. Johnson is an artist who draws on his varied background as a documentary photographer, solo street performance artist, social activist, and practicing Buddhist to create his present body of work. These lyrical photographs discover beauty amongst our devastating impact on the environment. While a BA in Economics, graduate study in Art and Photographic History, and a MFA from the University of Minnesota shape his vision, perhaps the most important influence for his work are his walks in the drosscapes within the Upper Mississippi River watershed where his dog discovers places for him to photograph.

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Diane Leon

4.24.2008

Hi Peter,Your work is so beautiful. The compositions in nature make a strong statement.diane .

april livingston

4.22.2008

my goodness--these are moving .

Carol Moran

4.15.2008

Thank you for that. I love your aesthetic - and your view (and viewpoint) of the world. Nature offers us so much that we take for granted. Even in our selfish destruction of what she gives us, she creates beauty from it - there to be seen by perhaps only a few? Thanks for being one of the few. -c .