Project Description: Photo Montage

For the Photography Montage project, we were instructed to create a portrait of a person or location by the method of collage/montage. In order to build a montage, one must "compress, extend, and alter" the photographs to create a final piece. The class' first assignment was to create 4 small montages consisting of 5 to 7 pictures each. For this task, I took pictures of my friend laying down. I took pictures from the angle of her chin, all the way down to the tip of her hair. I really liked the way the montages turned out. They were morphed and pieced together from different perspectives. I also took all the way around a bottle of Arizona Tea. I overlapped the pictures and pieced them together so one could see each side of the bottle of the tea in the montage. The second assignment was making two montages with 20 pictures in each. This time, I used my roommate and my friend laying next to each other on the floor of my dorm. I spread out my roommates braid and used this as detail in the montage. I had them lay down on my chevron rug to give the pictures a nice background. For my final montage, consisting of 75 photographs, I decided to steer in a different direction and take pictures of myself and a tree and to finish the project, I mounted all 75 pictures on a foam core for presentation.