J. Michael Johnson Photography
1 Moultrie Drive
Taylors, South Carolina 29687
864-979-6046 phone

Email: jmjphoto@aol.com
Web Site: JMichael.smugmug.com


It’s Not The Destination It’s The Journey

J. Michael travels to many motorcycle rallies, the Smoky Mountains, Cades Cove, Yellowstone National Park and other special places each year. Everyone is invited to visit J. Michael's web site to see his galleries showing where his photographic travels have taken him.


April 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, 2008, I photographed "The Wall That Heals" on the campus of the University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina. You are invited to visit the five gallery's of Moving Wall images taken during the University of South Carolina Upstate 40th year celebration. Four of these gallery's are in the featured gallery's section of this page.


I can be found at the Wall, in Washington, D.C., during Rolling Thunder XXI, May 23 to 25, 2008. Feel free to say “hello”, if you see me.

J. Michael will be glad to Capture Memories of Your Lifestyle. You can contact J. Michael or drop by where he is photographing a Motorcycle Rally or and Event to make arrangements for him to capture your special memories of a Special Occasion.


J. Michael was born and raised in East Tennessee and has lived in the southeast United States all his life. He began taking images and working in his darkroom over thirty years ago and has traveled extensively across the United States and the world to capture images of many different subjects. J. Michael’s love of photographing the motorcycle lifestyle, other subjects and his self-taught methods along with formal courses and in-field seminars with nationally known photographers, have defined the subjects he has photographed and written about over the years.

J. Michael started JMJ Photo in 1997, and since then has accumulated a large and varied collection of images, ranging from motorcycle rallies to nature and wildlife scenes. In addition to photographing Yellowstone National Park, he has traveled and photographed extensively in the Smoky Mountains and photographed the shore lines of the southeast United States.

J. Michael’s photographic and written work about Daytona’s Bike Week, as well as many other motorcycle rallies and events have been featured many times since 1997 in “Easyriders”, “Biker” and “In The Wind” magazines published by Paisano Publications, Inc. Lehman Trikes of Canada has published J. Michael’s work in their Pride Matters magazine. He has provided commercial photography services to a various companies in the motorcycle industry. His renown in motorcycle lifestyle photography has resulted in his giving slide shows to numerous motorcycle clubs, churches and civic groups. His most requested images are of the Vietnam veterans visiting the “Moving Wall” and the “Vietnam Veterans Memorial” in Washington DC during “Rolling Thunder” events.

March 12, 2007 through August 18, 2007 the Spartanburg Art Museum exhibited J. Michael’s Bikers: “Expression of Freedom” a photojournalist’s journey into the motorcycle lifestyle that is so often shied away from by civilians and journalists. The more than one hundred images comprising this show were taken at a variety of Daytona Beach, Florida, Bike Week rallies and at Rolling Thunder events in Washington, D.C.

This collection of images documents bikers and biker ladies riding on Daytona’s Main Street and the serious side of these bikers and biker ladies as they remember the Vietnam era, showing them riding from the Pentagon to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Memorial Day to remember a fallen comrade, a brother, a sister or a father whose name is now engraved forever in the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Images the general public never hears about or sees.

J. Michael’s color and black and white photographs captured the Spirit of America and its precious Freedom of Speech.

J. Michael has included the greater part of the exhibited images in the three galley's titled Bikers: Expression of Freedom” on this page.

Many of J. Michael’s, fine art prints are in private collections

J. Michael is a member of the American Image Press/Today’s Photographer Magazine, Lewisville, North Carolina and is on the Board of Trusses, of The Spartanburg Art Museum.



Ellen’s Delicatessen, 845 S. Buncombe Road, Greer, SC 29650, 864-877-1227 is exhibiting J. Michael. Views of Nature, September 03, 2007 through July 31, 2008. This show is a collection nature images taken in Cades Cove, the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Basketland part of Ohio and the Sonoran Desert that surrounds the north side Phoenix, Arizona


Happenings over the next few months:

Art Exhibts

Please visit the Spartanburg Art Museum’s web sitehttp://www.spartanburgartmuseum.org, for details of present and future art exhibits in their new building

A portion of J. Michael’s “Bikers: “Expression of Freedom”
is on exhibit, August 31, 2007 through July 31, 2008 at Cherokee Trikes and More
1877A Hwy 14South
Greer South Carolina 29650
864 879 2119 phone
Please visit Cherokee Trikes web sitehttp://www.cherokeetrikes.com

J. Michael’s Views of Nature is on exhibit
September 03, 2007 through July 31, 2008 at
Ellen’s Delicatessen 845 S. Buncombe Road Greer, SC 29650
Phone: 864-877-1227
Please visit Ellen’s Delicatessen web site:http://ellensdeli.com/


Will Be At

Cherokee Survivors Motorcycle Rally and Concerts
Cherokee, North Carolina
April 25 through 27, 2008 Spring Rally
September 05 through 07, 2008 Fall Rally
Please visit Cherokee Survivors web site:http://www.cherokeerally.com

Rolling Thunder XXI
Washington DC
May 22 through 26, 2008