Robert Tanitch reviews a stunning collection of photographs.
IMAGINE by Erik JOHANSSON (Max Strom £19.95).
It is always thrilling to discover an artist for the first time. I think you will be as amazed and delighted as I am.
Erik Johansson, the Swedish mixed-media photo-surrealist (born 1985), offers realistic photos of impossible scenes: a digital photomontage of catastrophes, outlandish juxtapositions and distorted perspectives.
“I don’t capture moments,” says Johansson, “I capture ideas. The camera is my tool and the computer my canvas.”
Huge scissors cut a house in two; power lines become the strings of an enormous guitar; a woman sows a blanket of snow and a man drags a road behind him; a bicyclist discovers a road ends in a frightening vertical drop; a vase drops but it is the hand which dropped it which fractures; a hand holds an ice-cream but it is the hand which is melting.
The 50 fantastical images, combining different realities seamlessly, are a brilliant achievement.
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