Sunday, February 13, 2011

Are my eye's deceiving me?

No, it is the images of Artist Erik Johansson from Norrkoping Sweden that are deceiving. Erik is a master of photo manipulation, making very unbelievable images believably real. He received his master's degree in computer engineering interactive design from Gottenburg University in Sweden in 2010. Computer engineering has not traditionally been a creative art, but Erik is writing computer code to solve visual problems in his photographs that make a very surreal image appear very real and his techniques are changing the way we see Art today.  In a recent interview for the UK news publication, The Independent,  Erik said that he gets his inspiration from surrealist artists like MC Escher and Dali and not from photographers.  In any case, Eric's imagery is changing the way we perceive reality in photographs.  To see more of Erik Johannson's images and read the full interview click here.