Lynn Johnson

Biography

Lynn Johnson has worked for LIFE, Sports Illustrated and has published forty feature stories in National Geographic magazine. Johnson is the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award and the Chris Hondros Fund, and she has been a Pulitzer finalist on two occasions. 

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Spring 2026

Profound Autism, Visible

Photography by Lynn Johnson ,  Essay by Amy S. F. Lutz

In an Illinois hospital, Luke Cullen, black-and-blue from punching himself in the face, lies in a bed with his hands strapped to the rails so he doesn’t attack the nurses or his mother, Jamie, whose entire upper body is covered with bite...

Boy covers ears with hands.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Summer 2025

The Madonnas of Librino

Photography by Lynn Johnson ,  By Bianca Stancanelli ,  Translation by Antony Shugaar
Agata Di Bella sitting on her bed cross legged. May 2022.
REPORTING / Winter 2023

The Taboo Medicine

By Harriet Brown ,  Photography by Lynn Johnson

Many parents know firsthand how cannabis can transform the lives of children with severe illness. Why won’t the legal system listen to them?

Olly and Joey Ajluni. Visalia, CA, December 2017.