Extra Credits

   A photomontage is the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. In this blog I´m going to describe a photomontage that I did, based on the global perception/stereotypes that people has of west Africa.

  The first thing that we can appreciate from this photomontage is the color red, this color represents all the blood that was spilled during the civil wars and during the independence war that every country had to face.  Another important part of the composition are the words, I selected this words because I think they can give us a clue of what is happening in this part of the world, thats why I selected the word WAR and NOT OVER. I also selected the phrase LAND OF ADVENTURE because besides all the problems that they are facing, this region also has its touristic part, that is well known because the safaris and the extreme activities that can be practiced here.

  The images that I selected are the ones that best describe the stereotypes that we have about this region, this images are elephants, diamonds, classic architecture of this region, a world map pointing towards this region of the world and also some pictures of desolation and the effects of the civil wars.

  In conclusion I selected those images because I think are the ones that can best describe the main stereotypes that we have of this region. I also selected images that show "happy" parts of this region because all the people thinks that all the things that happen in this region are bad, but in this way I can show that this is not true, that this is only a wrong STEREOTYPE.