Rebecca Johnson is a Portland-based photographer exploring the ways memory, time, and material life intersect.

Through quiet observation, she considers how objects, landscapes, and everyday environments hold the traces of the people who inhabit them.

Originally from Long Island, Rebecca studied Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and photography at the School of Visual Arts, the International Center of Photography, and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Alongside her artistic practice, she has built a nearly two-decade career in apparel product development—an experience that informs her sensitivity to construction, craftsmanship, and the ways materials carry meaning. She is also a member of Janelle Lynch’s The Salon.

Working between personal observation and collective history, Rebecca uses photography as an act of attention and preservation. Her images consider what is made, carried, adapted, and inherited—and how the past remains quietly present in the everyday.