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Dr. Eugene H. Johnson was Professor of Comparative Medicine at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman from 2000 until his retirement in 2024. Prior to that appointment, he worked as a National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Scientist at the Yale University Medical School. He has mentored numerous students and research scientists from many parts of the world, written more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and served as a reviewer and editor for many medical journals worldwide. A passionate photographer since 1974, he is the author of A Photographic Pilgrimage, Something’s Fishy (Unspoken Dialogues, 2004) and Reflections from the Not So Distant Past in Oman, a two-volume series commissioned by the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman. His photographic work has been featured in many notable magazines, including Black and White Photography, Docubooks, Estado de Sao Paulo, Food and Travel, Iris Foto, Lenswork, and Whimsical Magazine, and in books such as Looking at Images, by Brooks Jensen, the long-time editor of Lenswork. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Royal Court of the Sultanate of Oman, Nairobi National Museum in Kenya, Museum of Art in Sao Paulo, Brazilian American Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., Banco do Brasilia in Brazil, Al-Bustan Palace in Oman, and has been showcased in Brazil, Germany, India, Kazakhstan and Kenya. In 2004, the United States Embassy in the Sultanate of Oman hosted a thirty-year retrospective of his works that was co-sponsored by seventeen international corporations.
Mirasol Delfin Johnson was born in the Rizal province of the Philippines and pursued her education at Roosevelt College in Manila and AMA University, Quezon City, Philippines, where she studied commerce and computer science. In 1988, she relocated to Norway, which marked a significant turning point in her professional path. After initially working with bilingual and Filipino-Norwegian children at the Educational and Learning Development Center in Oslo, she became a representative for bilingual assistants from various countries as well as a legal interpreter and translator within both the judicial system and medical establishments. Her multifaceted cultural background has been invaluable in her role as the Associate Director of Unspoken Dialogues, a non-profit organization she co-founded with Eugene Johnson to promote narrative photographic imagery that conveys universal themes of humanity, and which donates the proceeds from the sale of prints and books to educational and child-health development programs.
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