REAL LIES
It’s the morning after Donald Trump’s election on a street in West Hollywood, where a woman with tears in her eyes grasps onto a man and shares an emotional embrace. But only some aspects of this image, captured by artist and photographer Max Pinckers, are in fact real. It is indeed the morning of a new dawn in American politics, and the emotions captured are more or less reflective of half of the country, but the couple are strangers – actors, to be more specific, posing under direction from Pinckers. The image may be someone’s version of the truth, but it’s certainly not truth as we know it.
“When it comes to photographs and images, I think they communicate a lot more than simply representing what is shown,” Pinckers says. “It works on many different levels, and our imagination or our way of seeing can be in flux with many different
