‘Whimsical Magazine, Tales Of Portraits... Whimsical Magazine is a new independent fortnightly publication aiming to highlight and sublimize portrait photography in all its forms, envisioned as a work of art. Additionally to awesome and unique editorial or commercial portraits, every issue will consist of interviews and articles spotlighting talents, from every part of the world, who will inspire every photography and image enthusiast and stimulate you to excel in your art, in order to make you live your passion more completely. Passion, creativity, emotion and audacity are our 4 watchwords. Eugene H. Johnson received his formal education in Kenya, Switzerland, England, West Germany and the United States. After graduating from the Free University of Berlin with a degree in Veterinary Medicine, he was trained in surgery and completed a PhD in Comparative Pathology at the University of California. He has worked in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and for the last 24 years served as a Professor of Comparative Medicine in the Sultanate of Oman. After his father gave him his first single reflex camera in 1973 and upon looking through the viewfinder, Johnson immediately realized that his life was to undergo a major transformation. He began to see the world with a probing intensity that he had never previously experienced. Johnson embarked on an intense study of photography and since 1974 has taken images around the world, relentlessly seeking and capturing those elusive moments when the camera is able to reveal the secrets of the human soul. When Pietro Bardi, one of the twentieth century’s best known art collectors and the founder and the curator of Latin America’s most important art museum, the ‘Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo’ viewed Johnson’s photographs of the peoples of Northeast Brazil he proclaimed that with the graces of God’s mercy he had lived long enough to see the work of an artist who had managed to immortalize the spirit of his people. Pietro Bardi was so impressed with Johnson’s work that a collection of master paintings was removed from an entire floor of the museum to exhibit his images, a rare honor for a photographer. In the United States, the Brazilian government hosted an exhibition of his works to great acclaim. Johnson’s images have since been exhibited around the world. «For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy