Artists

Dede Johnston
Growing up in Vermont, near the Canadian border, Johnston developed an early passion for snow-laden alpine landscapes. They are now an important theme in her photographic works. Ski resorts present an illusion of security in an inhospitable landscape, but in reality man remains vulnerable to powerful natural forces. Johnston’s series ‘Crowded Slopes’ plays on this tension between safety and danger. Human figures dwarfed by their surroundings, in images that recall something of 19th-Century ‘sublime’ landscapes. TAG is delighted to present this series in 2010, which is previously unseen in London.

Johnston earned a degree in Art History from Middlebury College, Vermont. In 2001, she studied photography at the Black and White School of Photography, London and has since participated in several group shows internationally. She has had solo exhibitions in London (2006) and Kitzbuhen, Austria (2007– 8).
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