Here on GoSee, we present you work which photographer Erik JOHANNSSON c/o AGENT MOLLY & CO already shot a few years back – but simply never got around to showing. And this is the story behind it: “In 2014, I was contacted by Pink Floyd asking if I’d be interested in creating album art for an upcoming release. I felt very honored, and I basically got total creative freedom around a certain set of words. But things took a different turn, and the artwork wasn’t used in the end at that time, but they said they would like to use it in the future. The problem was that I couldn’t show it until they would. Now, five and a half years later, I can finally share it with you!! It’s part of the album art in the collection box “The Later Years 1987 – 2019”. It was photographed in Iceland and Sweden in 2014. Originally, I also had the idea of using it upside down with the dead trees as roots.”
Pink Floyd was a British rock band founded in Cambridge in 1965 and was together until 2015. With their music and the visual design of their albums and stage performances, they created a completely new style for the times. The numbers of record sales range from 260 to 300 million, making Pink Floyd one of the most successful bands ever. The concept album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) is the worldwide third bestselling album, and the concept album The Wall (1979) is the bestselling double album.
The new project ‘Stuck Inside’ 2020 was created in the times of COVID-19: “In quarantine in my own head, lost inside with nowhere to go. A claustrophobic feeling of being stuck, while outside, time doesn’t care and keeps on moving as if nothing happened. Summer and winters come and go, they always have and always will, but here I am, stuck inside.” And about his new work ‘The Reset’, Erik says: “In these crazy times, it feels like we could use a reset button, something that could just make things go back to normal… would you press it?”