A photomontage is a collage constructed from many different photographs to form one new image. The technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century. (from world war 1 – world war 2).

The inspiration for my photo montage I got is from Joachim Schmid. He cuts two images in half to form one. This makes the image more abstract and gives you more to look at. He uses a variety of different images put together such as opposite genders- half female and half male, a young child in contrast to a grown up or just simply the same person but from a different angle.

my photomontage images edited on photoshop-

Overall, I really like how my photo-montage images turned out as I think they turned out more interesting than the original photos. I like when photography is presented in an abstract form, personally I think it gives more character and meaning to the photos. For example I got inspired by Joachim Schmid because I think combining two images into one is more interesting than having just one plain portrait image. In this case by using two images I think it can show how every person has two sides of them or two faces in a way, which can be seen by using twos sides of an individuals face and combining them. I cropped one of my two images and just simply dragged it on top of the previous layer and later on cropped it , in order to just focus mainly on the face like my chosen photographer.