(b.1988) Carter Wesley Johnston grew up in Houston, TX. Since 1995, CJ learned photography under mentors like his grandfather, Arthur Meyerson, Vincent Laforet, and studied at Glassell Museum School, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Corcoran School of Photojournalism, Art Institute of Boston, and Rochester Institute of Technology, where he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fine Art Photography in 2010. Since graduating, Carter has been featured in shows nation-wide. Now located in San Francisco, Carter is the Principal Optical/Digital Printer at Light Waves Imaging, printing museum and gallery collections for several internationally renowned photographers such as Mike Brodie, Tammy Rae Carland, Janet Delaney, Lukas Felzmann, Lucas Foglia, Jim Goldberg, Todd Hido, Mike Light, Matt Lipps, Reagan Louie, Paul Schiek, and Catherine Wagner, as well as galleries such as Pier 24.