This photograph was created by Liz Steketee. I still have not been able to find out if the photographs that Steketee uses her own photographs from her childhood or even from people that she knew / knows. Either way, this is a very powerful image. I believe that, from my perspective, this photo montage is telling us the truth about the young girl that we still in the portrait.  Essentially, what I think this photo montage is telling us, is the true way that this young girl views herself and how comfortable she is in her own body. There’s a few ways in which this photo montage could be interpreted in a few different ways. One way in which I see this photo montage is that maybe this woman has been feeling this way ever since she was a little girl around the age of when this photograph was taken. The fact that the little girl is smiling could be seen has how shes’s been hiding the secret about the way she feels and view her own body and image. She has been smiling to lie to everyone saying that everything is fine and that she is fine and happy with herself, when truly behind closed doors her real self comes out, a part of her that only she knows, and has gotten to know so well over the years, form when she was a little girl. Another way in which I have considered this photo montage, is that maybe the portrait of the little girl has been used, as if to represent a time when she wasn’t caring about what she looked like and was truly happy with herself. However, as she started growing up those views changed and because of that she started to feel bad about herself. I also feel like, still in the same context, that maybe a reason as to why the photograph of the little girl has been used to represent her thoughts that she now has, as a woman, thinking about the times when she was care free and wishing she could go back and learn to love herself from a young age instead of growing up hating her body.  I also think that’s another reason as to why the woman’s face was hidden behind the smiling portrait of the little girl, as I feel like she doesn’t like her face so much that she doesn’t even want to show that as she might think she’s too ugly for people to see, therefore replacing it with a photograph where she thinks she looks nice and pretty.

This is another photo montage created by Liz Steketee, where she seems to have taken an informal portrait of a man, which I personally do not know if this man had any relationship between Steketee or not, therefore just like with my other analysis, I will only be commenting on what I think I see and how I personally interpret the photograph / photo montage. With that being said, I personally think that this is a photograph of someone that Steketee knew very well and  someone who told her a lot about himself to her. I say this as what I am getting from the photo montage and  the way that she has created it, it seems to me that this man has had a lot of internal struggles that maybe not everyone knew about, however Liz happened to be one of them, therefore being able to illustrate it well.  The photograph that has been placed inside of the body of the man is representing darkness, death, destruction, demons in what is seems to be a field of flowers, maybe daisies. These may have been some of the things that he is / was struggling with and only the people who were very close to him knew about. I think that the main reason as to why this such dark photograph, was covering the whole body of the person instead of maybe just the mind, which represent these inner thoughts and feelings being a creation of only his mind, is because maybe the person felt like these thoughts were the ones to control him and therefore feeling that they were taking over his whole body and that these demons, thoughts and feelings where living for him. Another idea is that, maybe this man was hiding his feelings from everyone and that no one knew what was actually going on in his mind, so he thought. Maybe he just got worse at trying to hide it, there more that these demons, thoughts and feelings were taking over him, that he became an open book about his emotions. Essentially what I am trying to say is that, these things became his new image, therefore when people looked at him they didn’t really look at him as all they would see was his inner struggles, he became transparent. However, there’s no way to know the truth about this photo montage