Johanne Rahaman is a Trinidadian-born, Miami-based documentary photographer, working in both film and digital formats since 2002. She is the founder of the ongoing photographic archive, BlackFlorida, which examines shifting urban and rural spaces occupied by the Black communities throughout the State. Compelled by a lack of nuance or positive representation of Black communities in media, Johanne started documenting these communities in Florida that mirror her hometown - the stigmatized Laventille Hills of Trinidad - offering a snapshot of everyday moments that highlight entrepreneurship, beauty, sensuality, aging, mortality, youth, and resilience.

Johanne’s work has appeared in the New Yorker Magazine, Vogue, National Geographic, Hyperallergic, Slate, Jezebel, Huffington Post, Quartz Africa, Fusion Network, Miami New Times, Orlando Weekly, and on television and radio, including the NPR affiliate stations WLRN Miami and WMFE Orlando.

She has been published in Oxford American Magazine, Photo District News, and the photojournal, Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora.

Johanne has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Malaysia, and her work is currently on show at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, as a part of the U.S. State Department, Art in Embassies Cultural Exchange program.

Johanne is a 2018 recipient of an Ellies Award from Oolite Arts, and has received grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Alternate ROOTS, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She’s been nominated for the British Journal of Photography’s Ones To Watch, and World Press Photo’s 6x6 Global Talent Program, PDN 30.

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