A gallery piece from a recent exhibition of Johnson’s Folded Map Project shows 6900 North Ashland Avenue.
Johnson poses in the living room with her children, Nyjah and Khayyel.
Johnson rests on the porch of her Englewood home.
Johnson has a deep archive of unpublished work. BoysInWater—2015, one of Johnson’s lesser-known photographs, depicts a group of boys playing in the water at Foster Park, on Chicago’s South Side.
Hotchips—2011, another image from the photographer’s archive, shows Johnson’s daughter and a friend eating hot chips while attending summer camp at Foster Park.
Johnson holds a copy of Story of Englewood. The book tells the early history of Englewood, when white settlers were prominent. Few texts have been published after it to update the history of Englewood to today, but Johnson’s work continues to fill in this missing and overlooked history.
A gallery piece from a recent exhibition of Johnson’s Folded Map Project shows 6900 South Ashland Avenue—6900 North Ashland Avenue’s South Side counterpart.
The Chicago skyline. Johnson has said she wants the "Folded Map Project to serve as an opportunity for people to see the result of segregation. [Chicago] is also the place that has the greatest opportunity to get it right, to be an example of how you can dismantle this deeply embedded historic segregation."