Please Join us for the Toronto launch of RESILIENCE:
Thursday October 16th, 5-8pm
Contact Gallery / 80 Spadina Avenue Suite #205 Toronto, ON M5V 2J4
RSVP HERE.
After over a year and a half of work, we are excited for the arrival of our spectacular hardcover book with Figure 1 publishing. More than 200 photographs from the Ice Huts, Storm, Ice Villages, and Root Cellars 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.
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.
In stores October 2025.