Using some of my photographs from my first and second shoot and a newspaper article about heath and safety issues such as injury, death, drugs and assault. The point of this collage was just to explore ideas about the concerns of the new hospital that is being planned for in the near future. The two street portraits of two diverse subjects in the collage are meant to signify the fact that people of any class, race, religion etc. will all be in need of health-care at some point in their lives. The photograph of the back of the current hospital is simply meant to show how dated and in need of renovation the current building is. The photographs of signs that have been included in the collage are all supposed to be a symbol of danger or warning which is commonly something that leads to injury and therefore peoples’ need for healthcare.

Here is a photograph of the physical collage before then being digitally manipulated…

I then went on to use Photoshop in order to make the collage digitally versatile. I did this by cropping down the original and then increasing the exposure of the image. I then made the image black and white and adjusted the monochrome tones until I was satisfied with how it looked.

Here is the outcome of this…