Political Collage Finished!

My photo collage is finally done!

It wasn’t easy for me at first because what I had done with my draft was nothing like what was in my head, but I had no idea where to start to try and get it to look more like what I was imagining. So i decided to just build of what I already had so I wasn’t just sitting around getting anxious because I wasn’t getting anything done.

The first image I added to the collage was protest poster board picture of Carrie Fisher as Pincess Leia with the words “A women’s place is in the resistance.” Once I added that, it was like someone had pushed a boulder down a hill, I was on a roll.

Soon I realized that pxhere didn’t have the kind of content I was looking for so I searched up “free political pictures” which lead me to UnSplash, photos for everyone. I downloaded a lot of their pictures and got the result above.

I wish I could’ve used more pictures of my own but sadly I’ve only been to one protest, an abortion protest so the only pictures I had dealt with that controversy and I wanted this collage to contain many different controversies and movements. So that’s why I used mainly other peoples photos.

The main thing I did was simply adding layer masks and blending the different pictures together. I didn’t edit the pictures in any other way.