Olivia Johnson
I am a British/American wildlife photographer, artist and wild woman.
Throughout my childhood my inner wildness was protected and encouraged. Creativity and exploration were accepted. As I got older, this translated into exploring deeper into distant lands, experiencing a vivid patchwork of cultures and ecosystems all over the world. I believe that is what opened my eyes and my heart to the extraordinary diversity of life existing harmoniously in intricate and awe-inspiring environments.
I believe there is a wildness within each of us, that this chaotic modern world often asks us to ignore and suppress in order to survive it.
These ‘windows into the wild’ help me to remember who I am, and what I am made of, what we are all made of: earth, stardust and soul. I see in these creatures so many aspects of things we call ‘humanity’. There is grief and love, curiosity and fear, exploration, survival and thriving. Within these beings, those things aren’t conditioned to fit in to a world so heavily run by the brain, they are untamed, unleashed, raw, and powerful. In each living being I am reminded of an aspect within me, and within all of us, that I may have left behind or forgotten somewhere along the way, aspects that make us who we truly are underneath the facade we wear to face the world each day.
My mission is to reignite those lost parts of ourselves, to be reminded of the powerful, wild creatures we are and to find the courage to embody and embrace them to become whole again.