more combining images

Again these were takin in the mental asylum, this image is quite surreal. the natural light coming through the door suggests the viewer is having an insight into the life at the mental asylum, the light also shows a contrast between the outside world and the dark dingey building.

These images are meant to suggest how much young women are under presuure my the media-magazines, celebs, tv etc to look good. The cropped image shows Georgia with her hair spray, but when the whole image is revealed, the gun represents the pressure that some may feel to be up to date with fashion, weight etc. The gun also suggests that this obsession to "keep up" can actually drive people crazy,,for example anorexia.

The background image was takin in High Royds, a closed down mental asylum and so i wanted to make this image quite surreal and creepy, i layered a image of lucy over the top and ensured she was quite translucent to suggest a ghost like feel. I also made the image black and white as i think it adds to the eerie tone of the image.

Here i combined two of my photographs to create a more abstract image.
i layered the two images and then adjusted the curves and balances so that the city lights are only visible on her face, This image repesents Anna's new university life in the city, with the reflection of alcohol bottles and city lights.

Combing images task

Cropping Task

Here i photographed my friend Anna slicing onions..i obviously dramatised the make up etc so that when the onions were cut out the image , she looks genuinely upset and traumatized,
I think the high angle also suggests that she lacks power, the viewer is looking down on her which could suggest she's been abused or maybe bulllied.

More scanning experiments

I created this image by beginning with my orignal image of Sarah Vo, i then scanned in a number of her belongings, bits and bobs that showed her culture, memories and family. I then layered both images on photoshop.I then adjusted contrasts, curves and the opacity to get the right balance between the two images.
I like how her eyes are placed over the polaroids, it suggests her passion for photography, and how she see's the world.





























Here i more or less used the scanner its self as a camera, i layered polaroids, notes etc like a scrap book to add depth, the layers also suggest a long period of time. I then made the image black and white to add to the feeling of the past and faded memories.

My Dada

Scanning Task

Surrealism developed from a modernist art movement called Dada.Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Switzerland during World War 1 and peaked from 1916 to 1920.Dada soon became an international movement that influenced later styles such as Pop Art.

The Dada movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, theatre and graphic design. The work of Dada artists can be described as deliberate irrationality,disillusionment,chance, randomness and absurd. This is due to Dada being said to be “anti-art”. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. For example, if art were to have at least a implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning…..INTERPRETATION OF DADA IS DEPENDENT ENIRELY ON THE VIEWER.


Surreal pictures are based on thought, -on subconscious mind and vision rather than a reason. Much like a dream…. We often dream of familiar things, but all mixed up in strange ways that we are not used to. Photography was an ideal medium to convey this idea, and the growing existence of so many photographs in print encouraged new techniques of surrealist art….
For example Photomontage which was popular amongst Berlin Dadaists. This technique involved constructing pictures from photographs from newspapers and magazines in order to create pieces which could be interpreted in many different ways…

Photomontages effect on people depends on knowing it is a photograph and accepting it as truthful , yet realizing the situation it shows is impossible.

The work is often an expression of a point of view, a dream like fantasy or a piece of visual humor.

These days of course, Photoshop allows us to create the impossible using multiple photographs and graphics.