Erik Johansson is a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. The main focus of Eriks work is illusion and he likes to create illusion within his pictures and also with his street art where on of his pieces was an illusion which he created in Stockholm that from the right perspective looked like a giant whole in the ground.
I am a real fan of his work and I first saw some of his work in The Sun newspaper a couple of years ago. I like the way he takes ordinary things and makes them look really unordinary usually by flipping things round for example below the arms are broken instead of the vase and the arm is melting instead of the icecream.
Arms Break, Vases Don't
Melting Point
Revelation Fields
The picture above is another example of something Erik experiments with a lot in his work is playing with peoples perception of things. In this picture it looks like the girls hair but as it gets closer to us it looks like a field.
In the picture below it looks like a guy is ironing but then you realise he is in fact ironing himself and his full body and flat, ironed, body merge seamlessly together.
Stryktalig
His work is quite freaky and weird and in that sense it reminds me of the uncanny in the way that it plays with our perceptions of things we think we know then he puts a completely different spin on things and what we're looking at looks very realistic in one sense - it's things we recognise a lot in ever day life but then there is something not quite right about these images.
Face vs. Fist
I think Erik Johansson's work but be really interesting and a challenge to try and recreate in film using special and visual effects and something I would one day like to try.
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