Andrew Johnson

Documentary Photographer + Filmmaker

Video/Film

Clients: Amazon Watch, Mongabay, The Globe and Mail, Estadão The Toronto Star

School: Loyalist College Photojournalism, Centennial College Brock University

Baia Viva (2023)

A short documentary/video reportage on the struggle to save Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay. For Mongabay.

To Live Forever (2022)

Short doc film about ribeirinha Sara and her family of traditional fishermen who have lived along the banks of the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon for generations but who now face the death of the river that was once the source of all life.

The Last Forest (2021)

Video reportage on the Ka'apor Indigenous peoples' struggle to protect one of the last remaining areas of Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Pará.

For Mongabay and Mongabay Brasil.

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/in-brazil-indigenous-kaapor-take-their-territorys-defense-into-their-own-hands/

Complicity in Destruction: Part 2 (2021)

Short doc film on a young ribeirinho activist from a remote community in the Amazon grappling with a Canadian mining company's plans to build the largest open-pit gold mine in Brazil.

For Amazon Watch and the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB).

https://complicityindestruction.org/

Complicity in Destruction: Part 1 (2021)

Short doc film on a young Indigenous activist from a remote Indigenous community in the Amazon grappling with a Canadian mining company's plans to build the largest open-pit gold mine in Brazil.

For Amazon Watch and the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB).

https://complicityindestruction.org/

We Were Always Here (2018)

Short doc film using still imagery and an interview with Marcivana Satere-Mawe, on the urban Indigenous community of Manaus struggling for recognition in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Video reportage on a proposed Canadian gold mine in the Brazilian Amazon threatens the environment and wellbeing of nearby communities.

For Mongabay and Mongabay Brasil:

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/canadas-belo-sun-hits-legal-hurdles-in-bid-to-mine-indigenous-land-in-brazil/

Resistance (2017)

A short doc film on the history of a small quilombo community in the hinterland of Bahia state, northeastern Brazil.

Games of Exclusion (2016)

Doc/reportage showing events surrounding a protest against the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the opening ceremonies held on August 5, 2016.

Laila's Men (2016)

Mini-doc about a drug rehab centre in Kabul, Afghanistan run by Laila Haidari. For the Globe and Mail, 2016.

Le Jardin (2016)

Mini-doc on the January, 2016 bombing of the Le Jardin Restaurant in Kabul which killed security guard Baseer Ahmad, leaving his family without an income. as well as a young Ahmad Baset, robbing a father of his son.