Richard Johnson | Ice Huts | Toronto (CA) | By Emma Harrison

The simple ice fishing hut is a familiar sight across the snowy plains of Canada and serves an essential purpose; it must be weather resistant, easily transportable and provide basic shelter and access to the ground below.  Travelling around icy terrain and exploring the differences between ice hut architecture between provinces, photographer Richard Johnson created his Ice Huts project in order to document Canada’s ice fishing culture.

Now in its 8^th year, the project contains more than 725 images of individual huts across nine provinces (top left: Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta; top right: Anglin Lake, Saskatchewan; bottom left: Yamachiche, Quebec; bottom right: Lake Scugog, Ontario). In 2010, Johnson began to shoot his series Ice Villages and travelled to Northern Quebec, Manitoba and New Brunswick to capture a set of wide panoramic shots that integrate the ice hut structures into the background landscape. The Ice Village series will be displayed at Bulthaup until April 18th 2015 as part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival, happening this week (January 19^th-25^th).

If you’re in town this Sunday, don’t miss the complimentary Artist Talk & Brunch with Richard himself. 

Bernhard Lang | Aerial Views | Munich (GER) | By Lee Fleming

Munich-based Bernhard Lang reveals the vastness of nature and the solitude of humankind through his unique photography depicting expansive space from above. By capturing all of his shots at 'the ideal distance' (the point, according to Lang, where humans and nature can live together in a perfect match), Lang’s photography is able to interrogate our surroundings and explore how nature and civilisation can co-exist.

After completing a photography apprenticeship at Photostudio, Munich (1993-1996), Lang developed his versatile freelance photography with clients including Audi, O2, Sony Playstation, T-Mobile and Vodafone. Since 2010, he has documented his aerial photography project, resulting in his publication, Bernhard Lang: Aerial Views, highlighting photographs taken in South Germany between 2010-2011.

Although Lang’s aerial photography of densely populated beaches tend to receive the most attention, we found his coverage of a rowing boat race and industrial settings most enjoyable, particularly photographs of the North Rhine Westphalia and the biggest Opencast Coal Mining Pit in Germany, images all taken in 2014.

Find out more about Lang’s photography by visiting his website and his behance profile page.

Sean Woolsey | Costa Mesa, California (US) | By Lee Fleming

A fine artist and craftsman, Southern California based Sean Woolsey creates unique furniture, art and photography following an unorthodox creative process. Woolsey’s hand-made wooden furniture is crafted using traditional techniques and a mathematical approach, whereas his artwork is more experimental. Woolsey early inspiration can be traced back to his childhood; he grew up among a family of artists, his great grandmother was a talented landscape and oil painter and his closest inspiration, his father, a stained glass artist and film photographer.

Inside his Californian studio in Costa Mesa, you’ll note examples of Woolsey’s cross-disciplinary artworks that range from abstract copper paintings to wooden tables, items of homeware and skateboards. His craft approach is largely influenced by his appreciation for the Japanese philosophy Wabi-sabi, an aesthetic centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection to find true beauty.

Woolsey’s pieces are inspired by his travels and the photography taken on his adventures, shot entirely in film. The photograph that inspired him to create the artwork, whether an image of the colour palette, patterns or textures, accompanies each piece. But most interestingly is Woolsey’s choice of materials, his art is created on sheet metal and he uses paints, patinas and water-based acids to cause chemical reactions with the metal. Once he’s satisfied with the outcome, the metal is sealed with epoxy resin to prevent any further change and framed using black walnut. Each piece of art also bears Woolsey’s signature on a brass inlay plaque.

To find out more visit Sean Woolsey’s website or check out his online shop where his furniture and artwork is available to purchase.

Agnes Chang | Beijing (CN) | By Emma Harrison

Beijing-based Agnes Chang began taking photographs at the age of 23 when she spotted some plants on a camping trip. Inspired by their textures, shapes, patterns and prints, Chang captured the subjects on a friend’s pocket camera and was 'amazed by how charming these plants looked on physical paper'. This sparked an interest in photography that has led Chang to showcase her work on VSCO and Instagram.

Chang is a shining example of how photography-led social media platforms have encouraged emerging talent to be exhibited worldwide; the clean and minimalist web interface of the VSCO grid perfectly complements her simple images and allows them to be displayed with the adequate white space required to frame each shot.

Always inspired by her environment, Chang aims to capture unexpected moments alongside things that 'just naturally seem to go together'. Check out her VSCO feed here.

Window Seat by Jennilee Marigomen | Vancouver (CAN) | By Lee Fleming

This October Canadian photographer Jennilee Marigomen releases her brand new photobook, Window Seat. Currently based in Vancouver, Marigomen is Director of Communications at Gallery 295, a contemporary art gallery that supports the finished production of photographic-based works. Alongside her gallery directorship, Marigomen's own award-winning photography investigates the everyday and overlooked and she also boasts an impressive client list including Condé Nast, Hypebeast, Kinfolk magazine, Cereal magazine and The Plant Journal.

Published by Vancouver and Los Angeles based art book publisher New Documents, Window Seat presents a sequence of Marigomen's photography in sleepy Mexican beach towns. Marigomen’s photography focuses on the unnoticed fragments of daily life and this 64 page hardcover book is an extension of an edit presented in the sixth issue of Inventory magazine.

Also featuring an essay by photographer Nich Hance McElroy, Window Seat is available to purchase here. For more information, visit Jennilee Marigomen's website.