Chris Johns (onye na-ese foto)

**Chris Johns** (amụrụ Eprel 15, 1951)  bụ onye na-ese foto na onye bụbu onye nchịkọta akụkọ maka *National Geographic Magazine*, ọrụ ọ rụrụ site na Jenụwarị 2005 ruo Eprel 2014. Mgbe nhazigharị nke ime na nzukọ ahụ gasịrị, n'April 2014, a kpọrọ Johns onye isi ọdịnaya nke National Geographic Society .  Ọ nọrọ ọtụtụ afọ n'Afrịka maka akwụkwọ akụkọ ahụ ma bụrụ onye na-ese foto mbụ a na-akpọ onye nchịkọta akụkọ ya. Ọ malitere ọrụ ntaakụkọ ya n'akwụkwọ akụkọ kwa ụbọchị.

## Akụkọ ndụ
Tupu aghọọ onye isi mmemme Beyond Yellowstone nke National Geographic Society, Johns jere ozi dị ka onye isi nchịkwa nke Ụlọ Ọrụ Ọkachamara Society na onye isi ọdịnaya, na-ahụ maka ngosipụta nke ọdịnaya nchịkọta akụkọ *National Geographic* n'ofe usoro mgbasa ozi dị iche iche. Ọ bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke itoolu nke *National Geographic* site na Jenụwarị 2005 ruo Eprel 2014. N'oge nchịkọta akụkọ ya, Johns lekwasịrị anya na ịdị mma na foto, eserese na akụkọ ka amatara na nhọpụta 63, na-akpata 23 National Magazine Awards sitere na American Society of Magazine Editors . N'afọ 2008, aha Johns bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke afọ yana na 2011 *National Geographic* aha ya bụ Magazin nke Afọ.

A mụrụ na Medford, Oregon, Johns malitere ọrụ ya na foto foto mgbe ọ sonyeere  dị ka onye na-ese foto na 1975; n'afọ 1979, a kpọrọ ya onye na-ese foto nke afọ nke National Newspaper. Na 1983, ka afọ atọ gasịrị na *Seattle Times* dị ka onye ọrụ, ọ malitere ọrụ na-akwụghị ụgwọ ma rụọ ọrụ maka akwụkwọ akụkọ *ndụ*, *Time* na National Geographic. Johns ghọrọ onye na-ese foto nkwekọrịta National Geographic na 1985 wee sonye na ndị ọrụ akwụkwọ akụkọ na 1995.

Tupu iweghara ọrụ dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ *National Geographic*, Johns jere ozi dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ isi maka ihe atụ yana onye nchịkọta akụkọ mmekọ. Dị ka onye na-ese foto, o mepụtara ihe karịrị 20 akụkọ maka *National Geographic*, asatọ n'ime ha bụ akụkọ mkpuchi. Ihe oyiyi ya na-akọwa bụ nke Africa na anụ ọhịa ya. O meela ndị na-agụ akwụkwọ n'osimiri Zambezi, nyochaa mgba Bushmen na-aga n'ihu maka ịlanarị omenala ma nye akwụkwọ dị mkpa nke anụ ọhịa Africa dị n'ihe ize ndụ. Akpọrọ ya aha otu n'ime ndị na-ese foto 25 kacha mkpa n'ụwa site na akwụkwọ akụkọ *American Photo* na 2003.

Akwụkwọ Johns gụnyere *Ndagwurugwu Ndụ: Great Rift Africa* (1991), *Hawaii's Hidden Treasures* (1993) na *Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa* (2002). Onye na-aga n'ihu maka *anụ ọhịa na obi: Mmadụ na anụ ọhịa na Southern Africa* bụ Nelson Mandela dere. O dere okwu mmalite maka *In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits* (2004) na mmalite nke akwụkwọ National Geographic *100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed the World* (October 2007).

## Agụmakwụkwọ
Enyere Johns nzere doctorate site na Mahadum Indiana na 2010. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ akụkọ foto na Mahadum Minnesota wee nweta akara ugo mmụta bachelor na nka nka ya na obere obere ọrụ ugbo sitere na Mahadum Oregon State .

## Ndụ onwe onye
O bi n'Ugwu Blue Ridge nke Virginia ya na nwunye ya Elizabeth, ụmụ ya nwanyị Noel na Louise, na nwa ya nwoke Tim.

## Ntụaka
onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke itoolu nke National Geographic site na Jenụwarị 2005 ruo Eprel 2014. N'oge nchịkọ nchịkọta akụkọ nke itoolu nke National Geographic site maka akwụkwọ akụkọ ahụ ma bụrụ onye

## Njikọ mpụga

* Bio na National Geographic
* Ajụjụ ọnụ Chris Johns Oral History

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