Erik Johansson, "Don't Look Back"
2014, Inkjet Print
Erik Johansson's a photographer and image creator from Sweden. His work can be described as surreal scenes created by combining different photographs to make them look real as possible. I found this image in his book, "Imagine" and immediately felt a deep connect to it. We can see a young woman, alone, with a long empty road ahead. She's holding one suitcase with the floor crumbling behind her. Although it's not as dramatic as his others, this simplicity can express many different interpretations. For me, I see a girl who has faced many hardships in her past but the only way for her to move forward and find herself, she must leave everything behind her. She may not know what the future holds but she does know she cannot look back or stop, because if she does the floor might just crumble right underneath her.
