Collage and Montage - Savannah

Assignment 2 for our photo class is the following:

You will use the photographic medium to express a sense of place for the city in which you live. This assignment is not designed to capture a selection of tourist images of your town or city, but rather should express your own feelings and thoughts about the place. The images do not need to be recognizable as the place where you live. It is more important to provide an emotive experience for the viewer that describes an almost palpable experience of the environment.

Here is my work:

I live in Savannah but I am not originally from here. To me, there are two sides to Savannah. There is the tourist side, where the projected image from city hall is one of old money, southern hospitality, and historic charm, and then there is the impoverished side, where the reality is of crime, blighted properties, and a large portion of the population living below poverty in run down buildings. I chose to use imagery that includes icons of Savannah to represent the first side of the equation, and imagery that includes boarded up houses and peeling paint to represent the other.