For this exam project, I did not take any new photographs. Instead I scanned, used and manipulated archive photographs from when I was a child. I had previously brought some of my photographs and old photo albums from Portugal over to Jersey. I then just scanned the photographs that I was going to use after I implemented a selection process, which you can see on a previous blog post and started to digitally manipulate them. I decided to use a variety of photographs which go from formal portraits, to landscapes, birthday parties, important ceremonies, to grouped family photographs. I really like the way they look due to the fact that some of them are more than 20 years old and the quality of the photographs back then wasn’t as great as they are now, which is something that I personally prefer. I also included photographs of family members that I have seen in years, that have passed away or even family members that unfortunately I am not close with anymore therefore those photographs are all the memories I have of them as well as with them. I didn’t take any new photographs as I didn’t want to interfere with the aesthetic of the vintage look to the photograph as if I were to put them together in any way, they just wouldn’t look as good as they could do they weren’t included. Overall I am happy with my decision to use old archival photographs as it allowed me to re-tell my version of the truth and some of my feelings towards some of the photographs and to be able to reflect on some of the events that have happened in my life and manipulate them to whatever I wanted.