Using large format digital photography, internationally-celebrated Toronto artist Richard Johnson (1957 — 2021) documented the structures that shape Canadian cultures and communities. His images bring attention to unique places in a rapidly shifting world. Read more about Richard’s work here.
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Ice Hut # 426, Riverton, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2010.
Root Cellar #50, Farmer’s Arm Road, Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada, 2018.
RESILIENCE: Our New Book Is Available!
Richard Johnson: Resilience—Ice Huts and Root Cellars (2007–2021), published October 2025 in Canada by Figure 1, is a photographic collection that celebrates the tranquility of winter and the ingenuity of vernacular architecture.
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From a clear, straight-on vantage point and with a pictorial formality, Richard Johnson (1957–2021) spent more than a decade recording and categorizing visual typologies of small, hand-built structures across Canada. His most celebrated collection of photographs documents ice huts used for fishing. Later in his life, Johnson began documenting Newfoundland’s ubiquitous, earthen-built root cellars.
More than 200 photographs from these series are complemented by texts from acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Edward Burtynsky and curator Tom Smart, and a personal text by Johnson’s long-time partner, Lucie Bergeron-Johnson.
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National Home Show Exhibition: March 6-15
Our studio will be exhibiting at the National Home Show, March 6–15 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto. Photographs from the Ice Huts, Ice Villages, and Root Cellars series will be on view at Art at Home, Booth #13. Learn more here.
