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Professor Shannon Johnstone

26th June 2023

is a tenured Professor at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. She is also a PhD candidate in Human-Animal Studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where she is studying the role of images of animal suffering. Her photographic work deals with themes that reclaim what has been discarded and make visible that which is hidden. Johnstone has had solo shows in Chicago, Rochester, New Orleans, Raleigh, and Durham. Her photography has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the USA, and internationally in China, Germany, France, Taiwan, and Thailand. She has been a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist six times (2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010, 2009), and is the recipient of three Creativity Grants from the Culture & Animals Foundation (2023, 2019, 2014). Her project “Landfill Dogs”was most notably on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (2013), and CNN.com (2014). Her newest work “Roadside Zoo” won an Honorable Mention in the International Photography Awards (2021).