LETTER OF THE WEEK
All photography is a lie
The idea that there is any ‘reality’ in any photograph is totally fallacious. The deceit commences with the decision of what to shoot, and what not to shoot. And continues in the fundamental projection of a 3D world onto a flat 2D frame. All these arguments about post-processing, and now so-called ‘AI’ interventions, are predicated on a lie; the lie that photography ever represented ‘truth’, ‘reality’. Wringing our hands over the emergence of AI imagery is like asking ‘Should I be telling a greater or lesser lie?’
We will never come to terms with such until we can take a mature perspective on the underlying concept of image making – which is to ask only one question: Am I
