Barrow Cabins
Barrow Cabins depicts seasonal hunting cabins built by the Iñupiat inhabitants of Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska as seen through the extremes of the Arctic summer and winter. The cabins are situated along the shores of the Chukchi Sea, part of the larger Arctic Ocean. Each structure has been fashioned out of whatever makeshift materials are on hand, from weathered plywood to old shipping pallets collected from the nearby-decommissioned U.S. Navy Base, which has itself been refashioned into a hub of climate change scientific research.
Johnson first photographed the cabins in 2010, in the midnight hour of the Arctic summer when the sun never falls beneath the horizon. In 2012, he returned to photograph the cabins during the frigid grip of the Winter Solstice, when only a brief window of dusk-like light illuminates the otherwise lightless days. Seen together, both the summer and winter series are a meditation on the passage of time and the fragile seasonal shift along the extreme horizon of the Arctic.
Barrow Cabins engages the viewer in a visual game of concentration, with fragments of pictures reminding us to pay attention as we turn the page.
9.5x14 with die cut cover, 40 pages, 22 color photographs
bound with heavy weight Moab pigment prints and Neenah Pearlized heavy card stock cover
hand sewn saddle stitch binding
Edition of 200 + 50 signed special edition books with prints
Published & handmade by Ice Fog Press, Juneau, Alaska, August 2019
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Signed special edition with print available here
Signed special edition of the book is available with this previously unreleased photograph Sun setting over the Arctic Ocean from Barrow Cabins.
10x12.5 image on 11x14 paper + book with matching edition number 1-50
pigrment print on archival Canson Baryta paper
each limited edition book & print are numbered and the books are signed by the artist.
Available from Ice Fog Press here