Erik Johansson - Make Believe

"Make believe" is both a verb, a noun and an adjective. It can mean to imagine, to pretend that something is better than it is, or to imitate something real. What defines something as real? A photograph has long been a representation of capturing reality as it is. But what happens when we turn it around and try to capture something impossible but make it look like it was there? Problem solving meets creativity.

On better paper and in higher quality than ever. The third book by Erik Johansson is the most complete collection of his work so far covering both new unpublished works and old favorites in a carefully selected collection of his best work produced over the past 15 years. A total of 90 artworks, never before seen sketches and a look behind the scenes of how some of the images were crafted.

The book contains both many new artworks but also old favorites, here is a complete list of all the included artworks:

a place like home, a taste of freedom, above all, all above the sky, all we have is now, boy of hope, breaking up, burning tree, closing out, comfort zone, cumulus and thunder, cut and fold, daybreaker, deadline, decoration, demand and supply, deviation, disconnecting, don’t look back, down the past, drained memories, dreaming of snow, dreamwalking, drifting away, end of line, endless stories, endless reflections, expectations, falling asleep, fear of heights, free breakers, fishing with grandpa, fishy island, follow the rain, follow the path, full moon service, give me time, go your own road, groundbreaking, grow with progress, head in the clouds, ideas come at night, if lost please call, impact, imminent, impossible border crossing, just visiting, landfall, last one standing, layers of change, leaving home, leap of faith, long before we met long after we forget, looking back, looking for stars, lost in the rain, loyal mail, make purpose, marvel of engineering, moulin de mer, next station, night shift, night comes, now or never or whenever, october 13th, office escape, rejection process, river hotel, road closed unexpectedly, second attic, self-supporting, set them free, soundscapes, stack them on top, stay warm, stuck inside, the architect, the average consumer, the cover-up, the forest library, the light keeper, the reset, the swedish space program, under the corner, wake up, we saw, work together, you first, your opinion is important to us.