At  the urging of his speech therapist, John picked up the camera again, and through this act of fixing images outside his injured brain, he learned again to place himself in time. After his release from hospital, he went to Sierra Gates to photograph over several years, fellow brain injury patients and their staff. John’s body of work from this period The Burden of Memory, which was published as a book by Trolley Books in 2009, has been broadly exhibited and praised.

In 2001 John started work on a long-term exploration of the massive human alteration of the Colorado River, in the South-western United States and North-western Mexico. He has continued over the years to add images and stories to this ongoing project that focuses on the disconnection many Americans have with the source of their water.

In recent years John has documented the Trump era in American politics with his series, ‘Trumpistan, the resistance’, which was produced for the Unrest group project. He followed this up with his 2018 series, ‘Women march into American politics’, about two first-time candidates: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Kerri Harris at the midterm elections.

John is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.