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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RESILIENCE Is Now Available!
Please Join us for the Toronto launch of RESILIENCE:
Thursday October 16th, 5-8pm
Contact Gallery at 80 Spadina Avenue Suite #205 Toronto, ON M5V 2J4
RSVP HERE.
Our long-planned book of Richard’s work by Canadian publisher Figure 1 is also in stores and available for order through your local bookseller.
Richard Johnson: Resilience—Ice Huts and Root Cellars (2007–2021) is a photographic collection that celebrates the tranquility of winter and the ingenuity of vernacular architecture.
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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MACLEAN’S Magazine Culture Feature
“Snowbound” is a Culture feature on Richard’s work in the October 2025 issue of Maclean’s, Canada’s most important general interest magazine. Available now on newsstands across our fine nation and online here.
