Dhaka-based photojournalist
covering South Asia.
Award winning photojournalist
Amy Helene Johansson, born 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden, studied film and theatre
theory before earning a BA in fashion design. However, after a decade of working
for H&M as a fashion designer, a workshop with renowned photographer Steve
McCurry was to change her life forever.
Witnessing the power of
photography to tell the stories of people without voices, Amy ditched her
pencil and paper and bought her first ever professional camera and never looked
back.
Within a year she had been
published in leading broadsheets and magazines in the UK and Sweden, including
the Sunday Times UK, Dagens Nyheter, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Amelia and
Omvärlden.
Her work also enjoyed
international acclaim as the self taught photographer picked up first prize in
Asian Geographic Magazine “Faces of Asia Award”. The same year she won the
“Foundry Emerging Photojournalist Award.”
Amy’s work has taken her all
over the world covering topics as wide-ranging as Burmese refugees to Cabaret
in Denmark. Her work has been displayed in solo and collaborative exhibitions
in Bangladesh, the Czech Republic, Sweden and the UAE. She is currently
exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK.
Happiest moment: Riding on the
roof of a train with thousands of excited Bangladeshis going home to celebrate
the Eid festival. Cheesy tunes on cheap transistor radios and wind blowing in
my hair, I leaned over the edge of the train to take the picture that finished
in the finals of the National Geographic photography competition 2010.
Toughest interview: Listening
to Abdul Hossain reliving the year-long torture in a Bangladeshi prison while
his family frantically asked the police of his whereabouts and whether he was
dead or alive so that they could at least bury him.
Misha Hussain, journalist
All images © Amy Helene Johansson
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