Richard Johnson

Toronto-based photographer Richard Johnson spent 14 years shooting a series of passion projects that led to wider recognition. These images are lovingly documented alongside essays curated for Richard Johnson by his wife, Lucie Bergeron-Johnson, and writer Tom Smart. Fellow photographer Edward Burtynsky wrote the foreword.

Johnson, who died in December 2021, shot such typically hand-built subjects as colourful ice huts across Canada, root cellars in Newfoundland and homemade garbage bins in Ontario. Though mostly people-free, his anthropological-style photography of items lets viewers learn something about the diversity of the humans who created and use them, and the country they’re set in.