ENTRY DESCRIPTION
My work is an exploration of identity and perception combining both digital and analogue techniques. I often take departure from physical miniatures of landscapes and architectural spaces, combined with textures and objects I would photograph to use as building blocks in the editing process. It is important for me that these final images retain an uncanny balance between the natural and the constructed, playing with scale and perspective to make the viewer question what they see: to which extent are these images real and what reality do they represent?

This is an image from my series Sehnsucht. The series Sehnsucht are results of an ongoing investigation of using shapes and textures extracted from mundane objects and materials to construct dystopian landscapes of a forlorn world. While the materials used are stripped from their original context, they give the works a tactile quality and uncanny ‘realness’, blurring the lines between the familiar and fiction.
Desolate landscapes and distant horizons. Only a few souls are left; seeking answers that cannot be found. Sehnsucht is a meditation on abandonment and hope.

AUTHOR
/by Nanna Klith

Lise Johansson is a photographer based in Copenhagen, educated at Vera – School of Art and Design and Media College, Viborg.

Her education at the Media College has given her professionally photographical and technical skills, though she has managed to keep her own unique and artistic approach towards the medium. Blending both analoque and digital techniques, the arbitraty, blurry and the focused and perfect.

Johansson is creating mystical and dark places in between reality and imagination, in between the conscious and unconscious, the known and unknown. The works are letting the spectator left alone, in his own confrontation with long forgotten places in the mind, forced to reinvent the reality the photographs are presenting.

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