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.