Henry Mullins started working at 230 Regent Street in London in the 1840s and moved to Jersey in July 1848, setting up a studio known as the Royal Saloon, at 7 Royal Square. He would photograph Jersey political elite, mercantile families, military officers and professional classes. He would take multiple portraits of high class people, and narrow his portraits down into a set of 4 images cut into oval shapes, and placed into a diamond formation.

Henry Mullins uses 2-point-lighting in his portrait photographs to gently illuminate the face. He instructs the model to turn themselves at different angles in order to capture multiple perspectives of the face. Mullins uses a white background so that nothing is distracted from the face. 

From these photos I chose my favourites from different angles and then using Photoshop I edited them into diamond cameos by using the elliptical marquee tool.

I then opened an image of old paper from google, opened it in photoshop and copy and pasted my cut-outs onto the background.