Landscape Collages

This is a photograph of my mum and uncle taken in August 1977.  I used typefaces for this image and also for all of the images on this post because I felt it was how I could make it more contemporary while still using the old photos.  I text in the background is taken from a Hans Christian Andersen book which my mum still has from being a child.  I specifically used  the second section of the story The Snow Queen which

begins with the heading 'A Little Boy and a Little Girl'.

I used an old photo taken with a Polaroid camera for this image and used the text found on the back of it and incorporated it as part of the image.  I created a series of different compositions with this text until I decided that this was the best of them all.

I really really like this image because I think it looks the most retro of all the ones I've created and it turned out much better than I thought it would and the car is a nice touch in the corner.  I used the Roman Numeral 'V'(for 5) and also '5' simply because there are 5 main people in the image. The composition of the 'V' and '5' works well and they both blend in well with the image rather than looking out of place which I thought is what would happen.



This is a photograph of my great grandparents on their 25th wedding anniversary which is why I have used the Roman Numerals for 25.  The text beneath it says 'anniversary' in Hindi.  I chose to use Hindi because I like the shapes created by the letters and I thought they would present an additional visual aspect to the overall image.

HELEN BRIDGES.

I wanted to create a completely new set of images which are more collage based and resemble something similar to a landscape, a scene created by combining the photographs I have collected.  The outcomes will have contemporary graphical aspects to them but will still retain the vintage old feel given by the photographs.

I wasn't sure at first how to effectively compose the images I had envisioned so I did some research and came across Helen Bridges' work. 

Her work isn't exactly the type of images I want to create but it's enough to give me a clear idea on how I can compose my photographs and how I can introduce typography within the images.

Colourful Compositions!

Here is a selection of some of the images I have created so far.

I created the silhouettes by filling in the people's photographs from the family images with various colours using Adobe Photoshop and converted them into vectors to make the outlines smoother.  I based the colours on my own knowledge of colour coordination by constantly thinking about how people colour coordinate their own clothing which I think has worked really well in terms of my images.

In total I created 6 of these images all which include the geometric square lines that were inspired by the shapes on the figures shirt on the original image and I thought that it would compliment the images which I think it has.  Also in these images I have included the addition of Roman Numeral as they work well with the shapes and they also represent various numbers to do with particular persons life.

These 2 images have Hindi symbols incorportated within the image.  I chose them because I liked their combination of straight lines, right angles and also the curves of the 'O' and 'U' shapes within them.  They presented me with a few ideas on how to present them within the image and I have created a series of 10 with them.  These are just a sample of them.

In this image on the left, I have used the Arabic symbol for 'M' which is the first inital of the person in the image's name 'Mohammed'.  I created a variety of these images and also included the 'M' from the Phonecian alphabet as it was the Phonecian alphabet which became the bedrock for many writing systems including Arabic.