Spike Johnson

Grist

Spike Johnson is a journalist who photographs in the documentary style, exploring themes of social conflict that lie at the edges of the human experience.

Spike Johnson is a journalist who photographs in the documentary style, exploring themes of social conflict that lie at the edges of the human experience.


A shrimp boat is shown in a illustration that combines the boat with a map of the Mississippi Delta.

Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

Farm pollutants from multiple states feed a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimpers pay the cost.

‘Gun disease’ afflicts Myanmar’s gold miners

Politics

in the gold mines of Myanmar, ‘gun disease’ rages