I decided to analyse this photo montage that I created for my own experimentation part of my exam project because this is a very important photograph to me. The photograph underneath all the writing is a photograph of my mum in January of 1997.  This is a very important photograph to me as this is a photograph of when my mum was on the phone to my dad, and also when she told him that she was pregnant with me. The writing on top, although you cannot read it properly and it is in Portuguese, it is a message that my grandmother had written to my mum on the back of one of the photographs that were taken on the 18th birthday. I decided to add them together as this is kind of juxtapositioning  the meaning of both photographs. The time of when my mum officially became an adult comparing to a few years later when she is calling her husband telling him that she is pregnant with me, who is now telling the story about it 18 years later.  When editing the photographs I decided to blend the two photographs together using the difference blending mode as I feel like that added a sinister look to the photograph and therefore would also speak out as a loss of innocence and how the times changed. I personally really like this image and especially the message that it is conveying as well as the story behind it.

This photo montage is composed on tracings done from a photograph that was taken of me and some of my family members during my 5th birthday. I decided to do this photo montage with the some of the work by Liz Steketee in mind with the stitches. However, I decided to go one step further than what she originally did and I decided to duplicate my stitches layer as I was creating this photo montage and reversed it and changed the colour to black, The reason as to why I did so, was because it is actually representing how we all used to be so close and always together as a family, however, that quickly turned to black when me and my parents moved away from where we had lived all our lives. Therefore, the black is almost like representing the absence of the times we used to spend with our family as now it’s been  years since I have seen or talked to some of my family members included in the original photograph. As well, I decided to go with the colour red, for the original layout of the photograph to represent how we, as a family, are all connected by blood, and that’s what keeps us together when we are apart from each other.