This is a photo montage that I created as part of my response to Liz Steketee, which is one of the artists who’s work I have been looking at as part of research for this exam project. This photograph was originally a photograph of me and my great grandma from when I was little. I decided that I would  create a photo montage where I would replace the body of my great grandma with some news paper and stitches for a few reasons. The first one being that I wanted to create a photo montage where I was closely responding to the work of Liz Steketee as much as I could. The other reason being the fact that my great grandma sadly passed away the same year that I moved to Jersey. Therefore I felt like replacing her body with a newspaper would almost make it seem like she was the news and that you would be able to tell the real story just by looking at this photo montage. However, something weird that happened whilst I was creating this photo montage is that, I google searched the term ‘old vintage newspaper background’ and one of the first ones that came up was a news article talking about an accident where a few people died and it was written in the Augusta Chronicles, which I found to be a strange coincidence as both my great grandma passed away and the fact that she was also called Augusta. Therefore when I was creating this photo montage I made sure that the name Augusta was present inside of the outline of her body. 

This is another photo montage that I created as a response to the works of Liz Steketee. The original photograph is of my auntie / god mother and my uncle on their wedding day.  To be able to respond to the works is Liz Steketee, I decided that I would cut the eyes of both of them and swap them. I did this almost as a metaphor for the saying that ‘I only have eyes for you’. Therefore, I took that concept and seeing as they are in love and getting married that I would take it literally and swap their eyes around. I really think that the idea worked and I personally really like the way that it came out. They are both looking at the camera at not into each other’s eyes, therefore I feel like it would not the message across as well as I would want it to however, I still think that it has worked well. Also the reason as to why I decided to use this particular photograph and use this particular concept to construct a photo montage is because the truth is that unfortunately they were not married for that long and therefore, the reason for using this image is because I now find it ironic that they look so happy together and now the truth is that actually they are not together anymore. This also works, as they are not looking into each other’s eyes and instead are looking at the camera, it makes it seems like they are already looking at different people are not interested in each other anymore, therefore the love is forced, which in this case is represented by stitches, but it just didn’t work out.