I started with using images of single objects, in this case cigarette buds:

This was my way of showing what you could find almost anywhere in the world because of the volume of smokers. Not only does this show the litter of cigarette buds, but it also shows the amount of smoke let off into the air compared to everyone who smokes in the world.

I then had an idea of using the cigarettes that I had imaged and to create them into a person into who was smoking from a side view angle, this alone on photoshop took a long time sizing and moving, and even copying from the simple ones I had imaged. I had this idea from Irvin Penn who had taken images of individual cigarette buds, and editing them in a way which suited him and even the topographic world.

I had also had an edited image of the chimney tower down at the dump which would let off smoke when burning plastics. and thought I would do the same thing I did for the “cigarette man” (as I called it). I had used the ideas of Mandy Barker by taking images of single objects and then creating something out of it which linked to the object and what affect it has or does. This allowed me to create this: