David Hockney Studio Portrait Collage
Includes:
- Contact Sheet
- Process Work
In the early 1980’s, English painter David Hockney began creating intricate photo collages that he called “joiners”. His earlier collages consisted of grid-like compositions made up of Polaroid photographs. He then switched to photo lab processed 35mm photographs and created collages that took on a shape of their own, creating abstract representations of the scenes he had photographed.
All photographs were taken on a film camera, then developed in the dark room by cutting the film strip and placing it to be exposed on a larger piece of film paper
I decided to capture my friends Jason and Daisy for this collage. I made the overall photograph to be from the waist up to focus on their facials and hair, and not have the background distract from the key component. These photographs were taken in the school cafeteria.
