Photos, videos, & stories by Vincent D. Johnson
Book Update First, before I start I want to answer the one question that gets asked the most, “When is the book coming out?” The short answer is by the beginning of the 2025-26 school year. So, summer of 2025 … Continued
It’s already hard enough to squeeze photos of over 100 of the state’s most interesting gyms into one book and give them the space they need. That means somewhere along the way some of my favorite stand alone photos will … Continued
On the sidelines and baselines of high school sports I see a ton of photographers & video makers. Most are kids and parents of the schools they are filming, but if a team has a big enough star, more than … Continued
Each year I cover the IHSA football state finals I’ve tried to capture photos showing the amount of fans each school brings to the game. Partially because someone is always claiming their school brought the most fans and because even … Continued
Photos from the 2024 high school football game between Lemont H.S. and Oak Forest H.S., on Sept. 22, 2023. Photos that didn’t get published in the paper are available for download. Links to the story and past photo galleries too.
Back on April 23, I photographed the Chicago Hounds Rugby game against New Orleans (NoLa Gold) for Shaw Local News (the people behind the Joliet Herald News, Kane County Chronicle, and several other newspapers across Illinois). You can see the … Continued
when those of you who don’t live in the city, start telling me how it’s dying and nobody wants to live here. I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
If you see a photographer’s portfolio and are blown away from all the great concert photos they have, take this into consideration.
Somebody sets up tens-of-thousands of dollars worth of lighting equipment for them
Oak Park inspired Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and now me. On the afternoon of January 7th of 2012, I was getting ready to photograph a varsity girls basketball game for the Oak Leaves newspaper, in what would be my … Continued
Chicago Public High Schools have some amazing gyms and sometimes oddly impressive drapes in those gyms.