Photographer · Woodworker · Restorer · Builder · App Developer · Musician

I make things
every single day.

Six brands. One shop in Oak Cliff. No days off. This is the creative life behind everything I build — from conference headshots to hand-turned lamps to wedding stories to furniture brought back from the dead.

I never set out to run five businesses. I set out to make things. A photograph. A table. A lamp. An app. A moment that matters. Somewhere along the way, the making became the mission. Every day I wake up and build something — with my hands, with my camera, with my family. This site is the proof. Not the portfolio. The process.

— Erick Johnson, Dallas TX

The journal

Everything I'm making, writing, and learning.

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Weddings

Why I stopped asking couples to pose

Twenty years ago, I was a poser. Not in the fake way — in the literal way. I posed every couple. Chin down. Shoulder forward. Tilt your head. Look at me. Now look at each other. Now look away. Now look back.