Chris Johns

Chris Johns is a prize-winning photographer who spent many years in Africa for National Geographic Magazine and is the first photographer ever to be named Editor-in-Chief of the publication, the position he has held since 2005. Under Johns' leadership, National Geographic received the General Excellence prize in the National Magazine Awards in 2007 and 2008. He started his journalism career at daily newspapers, and at age 28 was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. Born in Oregon in April 1951, Johns studied agriculture at Oregon State University and photojournalism at the University of Minnesota. Johns began his photography career as a staff member at The Topeka Capital-Journal...