When Reality Isn’t Enough

Photo by World Press Photo contest winner Paolo Pellegrin of Magnum. When I was in photography school, I made a small portfolio called Ocean City, Maryland. It consisted of 12 or 15 pictures (I don’t recall now) taken in Ocean…

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The second issue is that photographs are evidence of true things in the world—not proof, but evidence—and making them into false statements when it’s not clear to others that that’s what you’re doing essentially falsifies their inherent evidentiary value. (That no one cares might be true, but doesn’t change the fact.)