Simen Johan was born in Norway, but moved to America and received his BFA in photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He showed a wide variety of work in this lecture, from his early work with children into his transition of using animals, and then to sculpture. His work is mostly comprised of digitally manipulated images. His early black and white work was done with found imagery, but when he moved into color photography, he began using all of his own photographs. He would set up scenes in different areas using animals, and composite the imagery together. His photographs evoke a sense of lonliness and curiosity. Simen said that he would make up stories in his head and sort of translate them into his work.
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