Ray J. Johnson

Ray J. Johnson is an accomplished freelance photographer, contributing to several Macro and Micro-Stock image providing agencies and an aspiring writer. After narrowly escaping the ravishes of the big city rat race and the ills entailed by living fast and loose decided to make a right turn before running out of road now resides near the Lake Superior shoreline aside the contrast of the hip downtown area of Marquette Michigan. Vested with the kindred spirit of letting the good times roll he still partakes of Marquette night-life, and the marauding that goes with it. His attorney is on a constant retainer and is almost always in-tow should he have to dodge the grasp of fascist's bullyboys and other rogue characters. His "Spidey Sense" is always tingling with an intuitive sense for trouble, and is always on the ready to get those defining moments digitally captured, such as; no-tell-motel shoots, birth of mistresses first born, grandma hauled off to a nursing home, second marriages, bar mitzvahs, and parents living precariously through their children. He does kinder, gentler events too, like fiery rallies & violent protests. A litany of services as a documentary styled photojournalist capture images to be adored for years. Having a deep-rooted aversion for cell phones & brain tumors, contacting him can be a real bitch. Typically he can found wandering aimlessly along the Lake Superior shoreline looking for unusual found objects that he shoots in B&W and profits handsomely off the Japanese who consider found object photography a sought-after art form. If you cannot find him walking the high water mark, smoke signals in Ojibwa will suffice and will be translated by his Native American wife when she is not mixing a tall Gin & Tonic, which is merely a tool to counter-balance himself due to a heavy, high-end Nikon in the other hand, or provoking their young son to throw stones at unsuspecting tourists that typically ask annoying questions.