The work of photographer Stella Johnson has spanned editorial assignments, corporate projects, documentaries and personal artistic expressions. Stella has worked extensively in both the U. S. and overseas with commissions from The Ford Foundation, EarthWatch Institute and Continental Airlines and assignments from Time, Fortune and US News and World Report.

She received two Fulbright Scholarships to Mexico in 2003-2004, and 2006, the former for photography and the latter for teaching. In 2008, she was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to teach in Ecuador. Her personal work has been recognized by a Cultural Collaborative Artist-In-Residence Grant, a grant from The International Music and Art Foundation and has been highlighted in dozens of shows in the U.S. and Mexico. Stella teaches at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and Boston University and was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Visual Arts at Northeastern University in 2006.

Her book, AL SOL, Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon and Nicaragua, is published by The University of Maine Press with exhibitions at the Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography and the University of Maine Museum of Art in 2008. Over a 15-year period, Stella photographed rural families living near Guanajuato and Oaxaca, Mexico, respectively, the Garifuna and Miskito Cultures on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua and the Gbaya and Fulbe Cultures in Cameroon.