Question

What is the message behind the pictre of the fish from Johansson’s?

Answer 1

Eric Johansson's artwork "Fishy Island" (2009), like many of his images can be interpreted as his view on the human impact on the enivronment. But, according to the Johansson himself, his goal is to provoke people to engage in giving his photos different meanings. He gives a hint in the descriptions of his photos, but the solution lies in the viewers eye.

Being that humans exploit the environment as much as possible, Fishy Island could be interpreted as the weight the human population imposes on their surrounding. Natural world represents a base of all human achievements and progress and should be percieved as a necessary part of our world.

Eric Johansson (1985) is a contemporary swedish born photographer and a visual artist based in Czech Republic. His work combines different photographs rendered together to represent his main source of inspiration, surrealism. Contrary to the traditional photography he captures ideas rather than moments. His goal is to present a photo as realistic as possible, even though it has a lot of unrealistic elements.