RESILIENCE

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.

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.

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. 

Hardcover | 223 pages | 12"x12"x1"