Alongside his professional work, Erik has started an ongoing photo series called The Ballet Project, which features his two daughters standing in ballet poses at beautiful locations around New York. His goal is to create a fantasy world while still keeping the identity of each location true to reality. His daughters, who study ballet, inspired him to start this project because he wanted to create images that portrayed them in fairy tale-like settings. In this way, he’s able to show the rest of the world the vision he has of his two little ballerinas.