Photography
Close to painting and filming, Johanna has been practising 35mm film photography daily since 2010. In 2014, her work was selected by the M+ Museum (Hong Kong) curators as one of the thirteen photography practices published in Pipeline Contemporary Art Magazine's Photography Issue. In 2022, Jane & Jeremy (UK) published Work The Soul Must Have, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck's first photography book. The same year, Terrace Square Photo Tokyo (Japan) presented a solo exhibition of her photography practice titled Caring & Tender. Two years later, Johanna was one of the winners of the 2024 Portrait of Britain Award (UK). Her second photography book Please take your shoes off and come in was published in 2025 by 朋 丁 pon ding (Taiwan) and nominated for the Golden Butterfly Award.
In 2010, Johanna started a simple photography project titled Analog Diary, in which she ventured to capture daily beauty. While keeping in mind similar concerns to those of painting, she explored colours, frames and textures, building a coherent body of work. Photographic cycles and photographic series are composed within Analog Diary, which stands as a starting point and reference.
Photographs by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck have been published in and commissioned by titles including M Le Monde (FR), The Weekender (Germany), Oh Comely (UK), The Carton (Lebanon), Hole & Corner Magazine, Moon Magazine (UK) The Plant Magazine (ES) and Hanatsubaki Magazine (JP).
Johanna’s series Analog Diary came to an end in 2025, a reflection process she wrote about in Please take your shoes off and come in. The artist is now focusing her photography practice on archiving, publishing, sharing and exhibiting the images she took on film over fifteen years.
Click on the photos below to view the selected series. For further photographic works, please also see Journal & Journal du Thé.