Fading away.

Here I have taken an image of Amy Winehouse and created my own collage using photoshop. As Amy's life began to go downhill because of the effects of the Media, fame, alcohol and drug use, I felt as a public person her life was slowly fading away. I wanted to create an image to express this emoticon in a still picture. I used a picture of Amy when she was in her prime and still looked great as an artist and a person, I used a newspaper print background, and created 7 different images using different effects on each picture. I wanted to get a point across of how Amy was still there, but slowly fading and being taken away by the media and life in general. There is a lot of meaning and thought behind these images. I wanted to create a look of Amy's face still being there but slightly covered by the newspaper print (the media). As I went along with my images I wanted my end result to be just a small piece of Amy's face, still covered by the newspaper print, to show that she is still here with us, but slowly fading away in the darkness of the limelight. I thought these images expressed how we was losing her as an artist, but also as a young human being. I really feel I have got the result and end picture and effect I wanted to get.