Tonika Johnson is a photographer from the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. She received her BA in Journalism & Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2003 and her MBA from National-Louis University in 2005. Her current and ongoing photography project, “From the INside,” seeks to challenge the perpetual negative perception of Englewood as a dangerous, crime-infested community plagued with poverty by offering artisically beautiful images of happiness and normalcy from her “insider” perspective.
