Although our exam title is a mixture between truth, fantasy and fiction, I am interested in focusing only in exploring the theme of truth in photography further. My plan for this project is to be able to explore the truth within family photographs, through the media and the visuals of vernacular photography. I have been researching the works of such people like Joachim Schmid, who is an artist who works with found photographs to create his own meaning of what someone else’s photograph could mean to him, as of course he is unaware of the true meaning behind that photograph as the photographs as the photographers themselves are unknown. This is something that I will be interested in exploring further, which is the perception of different people from the same photograph. I have also been looking at the works of Chino Otsuka, who is a very visually creative photographer with brilliant ideas as well as manipulation skills. What Otsuka does, is that she takes old photographs where she is included from when she was younger and puts herself as she is, where she is much older in the same photograph to make it look like two different people at the same time. Another artist who’s work I have been looking at is John Stezaker. Stezaker’s work involves creating a new person through the manipulation of two different portraits of different people. I personally find this idea very creative, and something that can have a lot of different meanings and reasons behind them depending on the perspective you are looking at the work from. And lastly I have also been looking at the work of Liz Steketee, who is someone who is very creative in the way that she ‘erases’ people out of photographs. Liz’s work is interesting in the way that she uses photographs, and I feel like she has a reason behind each and every photograph, and the method that she uses to create her final images is always unique. Therefore, for this project, whilst focusing on the visuals of these fur main artists that  I am looking into, in much more detail, I am wanting to create photographs that will be depicting the truth about who I am, where I came from, where I am now, and why everything happened the way it did. I want to create my own meaning from photographs that where taken of me, my friends and family as well as my surroundings. My main focus for the visuals is to use photographs from when I was still young. The reason for this is because, it was a period of time where I had no idea that one day that was all going to be taken away from me, where I thought I would spend a lot of my life, and people who would see me grow up from a baby to an adult. However that would not be the case and the truth would sooner or later become my new reality.