Before starting my experimentation on designing and creating a series of photo-montages using the images I collected from the archives, my own images from bunker trips, and images found online, I did some research into the process of creating photo-montages, and the history behind them. Although I already developed an overall understanding of photo-montage during my AS photography course, I did some more in depth research, and decided to take inspiration from a range of war-focused photo-montage works in order to relate my research to my current work.

The above images are examples or war-related photo-montages created by various artists including Peter Keenan and Michael Dmitriev. I have taken inspiration from their work and will be developing experimental photo-montages around the same theme: war and its effects, in order to keep with my overall project of bunker archaeology.