The technique of photomontaging is creating a collage constructed from multiple photographs.

Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2).

Artists such as Raoul Hausmann , Hannah Hoch and John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda – as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky

Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism, a ridiculing and nonsensical style of art created in response to the savagery and insensitivity of the First World War, which is closely related to Surrealism, as it often questioned the conventions of Western art at the time.