With this collage I wanted to create a journey so I use an image of outside a bunker, tore hole in it, stuck it onto an image of inside a bunker then stuck both onto a photocopy of an occupation newspaper.

For this montage I wanted to connect my images to the past so I found an archival image of a man possible a slave digging the bunker out, cut it up and then stuck bits of it to my own image

The occupation of the channel Islands lasted for five years from the 30th of June 1940 till their liberation on 9th May 1945. The whole occupation received little resistance however, it almost ended in near starvation in the last winter. Both Guernsey and Jersey’s civil courts were allowed to operate.  They did change the time zone from GMT to CET and the rule of the road was changed to driving on the right. They allowed certain types of entertainment to continue like cinema and theatre, their marching bands even performed from time to time. Lil Dagover, a famous German actress of the time, even visited German troops in Guernsey and Jersey in 1944.

During the weekend I went to Corbiere light house to take pictures of the occupation bunkers up there. I thought since they had bunkers that were painted it’d be interesting to see what that’d look like once I’d edited the images into black and white.

After the shoot in Lightroom I edited my favourite images into black and white, adjusting some of the settings, and then cropped them.