Canadian Fishing Huts by Richard Johnson

Photo Credit: Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson is a talented photographer based in Toronto, Canada who has worked for 18 years as interior designer specializing in retail design and lighting. For his project Ice Huts, Richard has spent much of the last eight years traveling across Canada to capture the primitive, portable shelters people use for ice fishing on lakes and bays.

These temporary structures are a haphazard mix of sheet metal, faux wood paneling, and waterproof tarps, providing a bit of shelter who are ice fishing, Johnson has also found regional differences in the huts. Saskatchewan is the most interesting as they have the highest per capita ownership of pick-up trucks and the huts have to fit in the back of the trucks to be driven to the location so they have a distinctive notch on the underside, he says.