Now that you’ve reached the end of this project on photography and feminism, try and produce an image that illustrates your feelings or approach to feminism using the technique of photomontage. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an active feminist or feel ambivalent or even hostile towards feminism in terms of producing this piece. Show your view!
Have a look at some Martha Rosler photos and photomontage to give you some ideas:
http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/photo/index.html
Choose a range of items that represent feminism as you see it and make a collage from photographs of your chosen items. Play with scale, perspective and colour. Black and white – spot colour – it’s your choice.
Feel free to use text to illustrate, i.e. as image rather than text. You can use parts of found images as long as the concept and major images are your own.
- Produce one photo collage digitally.
- Produce a second photo collage in a different, more tactile and responsive manner. Rephotograph the result.
Your collages should be 2:1 ratio, i.e. twice as long as wide.
Write up the experience in your learning log or blog and comment on how well the two production methods worked.
