Chris Johnson is a photographic and video artist, curator and writer. He is currently a full Professor and Chair of Photography at  CCA.

Chris Johnson studied photography with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Wynn Bullock.

Johnson will discuss his ongoing Question Bridge project. 

A team of four artists, including CCA Photography faculty member Chris Johnson and two CCA alumni, Hank Willis Thomas (MFA and MA Visual Criticism 2004) and Bayeté Ross Smith (MFA 2004) (the fourth team member is Kamal Sinclair), have begun a far-reaching conversation on this topic, engaging a diverse group of African American males in a question-and-answer exchange and recording the proceedings on video. Their innovative trans-media project, Question Bridge: Black Males, seeks to represent and redefine black male identity in America. The project has grown tremendously since its original incarnation in the mid-1990s, and it will reach a vast viewership via film festivals, museums, and the Internet, inspiring its audiences to rethink how they understand not only black men, but also our society as a whole, and themselves.

Question Bridge: Black Males won the 2015 the ICP Infinity Award and in 2016 was inducted in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

In 2015 Aperture published Question Bridge: Black Males.