Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image.

Thomas Sauvin, a French artist, created a series of images called, ‘No more, No less.’ This is where he weould edit and move around parts of the image, but not add or take away anything, creating the name ‘No more, No less.’ This was his one rule with the images, ‘nothing is removed, nothing is added.’

This interests me because it gets the photographer to work with what they’ve got and see how they can manipulate an image to create a new meaning/look.

This is one of his finished images. The edits made are simple but effective, leaving the final image looking clean and not over edited or distorted. The image is in black and white which gives eddied contrast to the blacks and shadows in the image, while the wide aperture focuses on the face of the subject, both adding depth of field to the image.

My Image & Edit

Here i used the same tonal range of Thomas Sauvin by changing the original RGB image into a grayscale image. I then Cut out a triangle around the eye and moved it to a seperate layer. I then cut out another identical triangle in another part of the image, moved that triangle to a seperate layer aswel, then swapped the location of the two shapes. The layers were ordered so that the original is behind the newly edited parts of the image.