Author and photographer, Heidi Johnson was born in Traverse City, Michigan and has been studying all things photography for over 25 years. She is a fine art, editorial and commercial photographer working with both film and digital techniques. She has an AAS/Photography degree from Lansing Community College and has studied fine art/photography at Michigan State University, Northern Michigan University and Kendall College of Art and Design.

In the 1990's, Heidi worked several years in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a product catalog photographer, for companies such as Best Buy and Fingerhut Companies. In 1999, she was offered an Interlochen Arts Academy Artist-in-Residence and lived on campus and taught photography to Academy students. In 2007, Heidi joined Interlochen's new Adult Arts Program as a digital photography instructor. Look for her 2008 workshops at Interlochen Center for the Arts .  Her work has been published in: Detroit HOUR Magazine, The Strad Magazine, Cedar Living Magazine, Weird Michigan, Detroit Home Magazine and in 2004, several images were purchased by Warner Brothers to be used as set decor.

An interest in the Traverse City State Hospital brought Johnson to the historic site in 1997 with her favored medium of black and white infrared film. Her ethereal images of the site combined with its poignant history were published in 2001 into a book entitled, Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum . Since its publication it has become a local best-seller and was honored with a READ MICHIGAN Award.

 

Heidi Johnson

P.O. Box 164

Benzonia, MI 49617