Leica Store Miami to Host “Growing Up Traveling” Gallery Opening & Artist Talk with Acclaimed Photographer Jamie Johnson.
Event Details: What: “Growing Up Traveling” Gallery Opening & Artist Talk with Jamie Johnson
When: Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM
Where: Leica Store Miami, 372 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida, 33134, United States
Artist: Jamie Johnson Admission: Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Leica Store Miami is honored to announce the opening of “Growing Up Traveling,” a captivating solo exhibition by internationally renowned photographer Jamie Johnson. The gallery opening and artist talk will take place on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM at Leica Store Miami, located at 372 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida, 33134. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served. All ages are welcome.
Jamie Johnson, a Brooklyn-born, NYC and SF-raised photographer now living in France, has dedicated her career to documenting children and childhood across the globe. Her profound passion for “faces of the next generation” has led her on extensive journeys from Laos to Cuba, the Amazon to Mongolia, revealing a universal thread in the experiences of children worldwide. Johnson’s unique ability to connect with her young subjects often blossoms into lifelong friendships with their families, allowing her to intimately examine diverse lifestyles, cultures, and traditions.
The exhibition will feature powerful images from Johnson’s acclaimed monograph, “Growing Up Traveling,” which was released in September 2020 by Kehrer Verlag and garnered multiple awards for best photo book. This compelling series specifically focuses on the Irish Traveller community, a nomadic indigenous ethnic minority who have lived in Ireland for centuries, often facing significant racism and stereotypes.
“I have spent many years traveling back and forth to Ireland to document these incredible children,” says Johnson. “The experience I had photographing the grit and beauty that is the everyday life of a Traveller child is one that inspires me every day. Their deep respect for family and cultural values is refreshing, one that can be quite difficult to find in an age with the convenience of social media.”
Johnson’s work aims to shed light on the resilience and dreams of these children, emphasizing that “a child is an innocent, happy, precious part of the world that should be loved and accepted and encouraged no matter where or how they live.”
Her photographs have been exhibited internationally in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris, and are held in the permanent collections of several American museums. Johnson’s second monograph, “The Female Spirit,” was recently published by Peanut Press.
Attendees will have a unique opportunity to hear directly from Jamie Johnson about her photographic process, her experiences documenting children globally, and the powerful narratives behind the “Growing Up Traveling” series.
For more information about Jamie Johnson and her work, please visit https://www.jamiejohnsonphotography.com or follow her on Instagram: @jamiejohnsonphotography.
