A favorite internet read, The Morning News, currently has put up an interview with photographer Eirik Johnson.
When a photographer comes along that captures seemingly mundane, every‒day, stuff and yet manages to make it something powerfully interesting, you know you’ve stumbled upon a creative well worth looking into.
Eirik has found a way to capture not only places and scenes in his album Sawdust Mountain, but he also has captured the heart of locals and tells their story with a quick click of the shutter.
It’s this kind of photography that helps you take every moment of your day and try to view it as a source of inspiration and creative motivation.
Eirik explains how his memories of the northwest ‒ seemingly mystical in nature ‒ helped him determine what to capture for Sawdust Mountain. Eirik says:
“When I was young, we would spend a lot of time out in the mountains on the coast and in rural areas. My memories were of getting out of the car on a logging road and hunting for chanterelle mushrooms in the fall, or going to watch the salmon come in to spawn in the Bogachiel River. Those are the sort of iconic, mythical memories I had.”
How might your boring surroundings become interesting to others? How can you use memories of the world you’ve known to motivate your creative thinking?
For more inspiration this week, be sure to read about the story behind Sawdust Mountain and the inspiration Eirik used for it over at The Morning News.