I focused my project on my grandads belongings. He died before I was born but he had an interesting life. I focused a lot one of his passports.
I chose one which was valid during a time he was working. I did this because he had a job on a boat, so the passport had many stamps from different locations across the world.
Part of the reason I chose to do my project on him is because I was named after him.
I also chose to base my project on this because he was captured in the war. While he was living in Manila, he was captured by the Japanese when they invaded. They put him in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, the biggest Japanese camp in the Philippines at the time.
It was not a concentration camp, but the conditions were very poor and prisoners barely got any food. This resulted in many dying from starvation. After the liberation by the Americans, they photographed the ones who survived.
My grandad kept a declaration of wheat given by the Americans after they liberated Santo Tomas.
I used this as a backdrop to take some of my photos:
I also used this to edit other photos on to
