: Mind your step :

Street illusions isn’t something new, but Erik Johansson wanted to try to make it as a photo instead of drawing and painting the streets

- Mind your step is a large scale 32 x 18 meters (105′ x 59′ feet) street illusion in Stockholm at Sergels torg made by him, Erik Johansson. It will be on the square between 7-12 June 2011. For a long time he have been doing creative retouch and surreal montages. He has always been quite fascinated by perspective illusions in his images and some time ago he got an idea of trying to realize one in a public space somewhere. His idea was to put a photo in an environment and actually trick people that it would have depth. Photography is his medium and he wanted it to look as realistic as possible, just like my photos.

He was introduced to a project called Generation 7 where seven young creative people get to realize their dream project. This was a perfect opportunity to actually realize this idea for real using his imagination, camera and PC. He choose the heart of Stockholm, Sergels torg.