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Johanna Harris

Posted on May 28, 2007 - Filed Under Degree Show, Photography |

Community Groups: Cultural Integration or Segregation?

Johanna has spent the past few months working alongside community groups in order to document social interaction between people of different age, gender and race. This documentation has been displayed in a book alongside explanitory text which forms the Community Groups: Cultural Integration or Segregation? body of work. The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry has commissioned her to produce a set of images documenting these groups, which will be exhibited later on in the year.

Johanna has a special interest in photographing local events, with a specific focus on capturing people enjoying community events. In the future she would like to extend this interest of community photography to a more world-wide arena. Photographing many different cultures in their with the intention to share these differences globaly to encourage understanding and tolerance.

Environmental issues caputre Johanna’s attention further photographically. In Febuary 2007 she exhibited her Wasteland / Wasted Land? project at the Glasshouse Gallery in Coventry. Her work questions the way in which we use the land around us which is deemed so precious and puts forward the idea that there is too much unused land out there and questions whether we could use it for what it was originally intended to or whether we could rework it in a more useful way.

Johanna has also worked alongside the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust to produce photographs for the Hillfields Party in the Park which took place in Febuary. She is currently writing and producing photographs for the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust magazine. She has also written articles for The Source, Coventry University’s student newspaper.

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