Surreal Photography by Erik Johansson
Erik Johansson, originally from Sweden, claims to capture ‘ideas’ in his work. Whether using photographs and digital editing, or even paint and hand made cardboard models to re-create an imagined vision, his completed images look as though they are perfectly genuine photographs.
In fact, every new image is a combination of hundreds of original photographs, sometimes with raw materials created by Mr Johansson himself, and dozens of hours spent in Adobe Photoshop to digitally alter and combine different elements to illustrate his idea.
Mr Johansson writes on his website that he uses photography as a means of ‘collecting material to realise the ideas in my mind’.