Johan Hallberg Campbell
Johan Hallberg Campbell was born in the Highlands of Scotland and has been living and working in Canada since 2007. Graduating with a BA (Hons) from The Glasgow School of Art in 2002 and specializing in both photography and film. His projects have been published, exhibited and screened internationally.
Hallberg Campbell’s work is a documentation of travel with the purpose of finding and engaging with communities and belonging.
In 2009, while visiting family in Scalpay, a small fishing community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Hallberg Campbell saw the declining traditions of his ancestors. His uncle, a lifelong fisherman, spoke of the disappearance of the herring, his “silver darlings,” and the imminent loss of his vocation. It was during that trip the connection to his heritage and a relationship with the coast began.
The following year Hallberg Campbell decided to travel on the first of many journeys to investigate Canada’s coastline, his new home. This body of work serve as a window into its beauty, its harshness and views of a way of life where land meets the sea.
