Experience

Freelance Photographer / Designer

• Photography
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Photojournalist

  • Jan 2006 - Present

  Practicing photojournalist/portrait photographer familiar with current trends in high-resolution digital photography, on-site lighting and image manipulation. Work with professional database and retouching programs, (Photoshop, Lightroom). Partial publication list: New York Times (Travel, Dining, Museum sections), Bitter Southerner, Southern Living, Philadelphia Inquirer, Food Arts magazine, Wine and Spirits. Solo exhibitions (partial list): "Of the Nation: New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians— University of Mississipi, Center for the Study of Southern Culture "Spirit Leads My Needle/It’s Your Glory (photo/film project)" The Ohio State University, Newark "New Orleans Second Line Parades: Photographs by Pableaux Johnson." Fowler Museum of Global Arts and Culture, UCLA. "New Orleans Second Line Parades: Photographs by Pableaux Johnson." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for the Study of the American South. Show less



Freelance

• Instructor

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  Developed and taught a wide range of seminars and workshops on varied topics -- from Louisiana culinary history to Mac-based page layout programs to freelance employment strategies. • New York Times CIties for Tomorrow conference • Dillard University/Historic New Orleans Collection Culinary Symposiums • International Association of Culinary Professionals, New Orleans • Central Market Cooking School (Austin, Houston, San Antonio) • Tulane University, New Orleans Food Culture/Cooking Skills • South by Southwest Interactive Conference— Freelance business issues Show less



freelance writer, editor

• Writing and Editing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Journalist

  • Jan 1995 - Present

  Contributing writer, reporter and columnist for a wide variety of print and online publications. Specializing in culinary instruction, recipe development, restaurant criticism and food-related features. Partial publication list: Newspapers—New York Times (Dining In/Out, Travel, Escapes, Special Sections), New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans Gambit Weekly, Austin Chronicle, Houston Press, London Daily Telegraph Magazines—Saveur, Bon Appetit, Southern Living, Imbibe, Food Arts, Garden & Gun, Chile Pepper, Wine and Spirits, Coastal Living, BBC Good Food, Texas Monthly, Cooking Light. Books: ESPN Gameday Gourmet (ESPN Books/Simon and Schuster), Eating New Orleans (Countryman Press), World Food New Orleans (Lonely Planet). Awards: James Beard Journalism Award nomination for newspaper feature without recipes, Winner of Jacob’s Creek World Media Award for World Food New Orleans, Le Cordon Bleu World Media Award nomination for Eating New Orleans. Named to “100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time” by epicurious.com. “Everyday Sacred: A Personal Gumbo Story” included in 2017 Best American Food Writing. Nomination for 2018 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award: Best Cocktail and Spirits Writer. Show less



Red Beans Roadshow

• New Orleans

• Red Beans Road Show

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2020

  Developed, runs and maintains all aspects of national Louisiana-themed “dog and pony show” restaurant production. The Roadshow adapts New Orleans’ signature Monday-night supper ritual and has toured 40 different US cities (and a ship’s galley near the Arctic Circle). Responsible for all aspects of the event: logistics, promotion, cooking, partnership/sponsorship maintenance, hosting, design and website maintenance. Developed, runs and maintains all aspects of national Louisiana-themed “dog and pony show” restaurant production. The Roadshow adapts New Orleans’ signature Monday-night supper ritual and has toured 40 different US cities (and a ship’s galley near the Arctic Circle). Responsible for all aspects of the event: logistics, promotion, cooking, partnership/sponsorship maintenance, hosting, design and website maintenance.



Blue Crab Labs

• New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

• iPad Developer/Content Strategist

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2013

  Independent content strategist/developer for iPad publishing projects. Developed app version of print restaurant guide Eating New Orleans and other print/app projects, including the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, an interactive infrastructure planning project with GNO Inc. and Professor Richard Campenalla. Worked with authors on touch-based digital adaptation projects. Independent content strategist/developer for iPad publishing projects. Developed app version of print restaurant guide Eating New Orleans and other print/app projects, including the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, an interactive infrastructure planning project with GNO Inc. and Professor Richard Campenalla. Worked with authors on touch-based digital adaptation projects.



Courier Journal

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Food Editor

  • Dec 2007 - Dec 2008

  Wrote, edited and produced instructional content for mid-sized daily newspaper. Oversaw assistant editor, freelance staff, budgets and online/print production on tight deadlines. Wrote weekly features, cultural coverage and educational articles. Cooked and styled during weekly photo shoots and maintained daily blog. Wrote, edited and produced instructional content for mid-sized daily newspaper. Oversaw assistant editor, freelance staff, budgets and online/print production on tight deadlines. Wrote weekly features, cultural coverage and educational articles. Cooked and styled during weekly photo shoots and maintained daily blog.