Reality check
The trailblazing American photographer Alfred Stieglitz once observed that in photography there is “a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality”. The words amount to little more than a tautology until an image presents that makes it plain how the photographer can frame a point of view into a nuanced perception of the facts. How real is real when it’s mediated by the mind’s eye?
The question has long posed in the elaborate productions of photographer Michael Cook, an Indigenous man who uses the
