How can we trust photos to tell the truth now that new technology has made almost Anything Possible kind of photographic image still lay claim to authenticity or is fakery reality its 21 looks finances. Lady di had had enough. George w. Bush was searching for a solution. And meghan mark on prince harry showing off the royal jewels. Ringback talker for Allison Jackson appears to capture celebrities when their guard is down to give us new insights into their world. But is seeing really believing things as the whole mechanism of photography itself is a lowing to see for medium a so i mean medium that should not be translated. We still want to be seduced we still want to be believing in. Our son jackson plays with this inherent contradiction in our pop rock. Staged using doubles. So i create photographs that weve all imagine weve never seen before that sounds just like a simple mechanism but its just getting that right because as you say you dont go a little bit too far and you dont want to go a little bit less is just finding the right edge works absolutely David Beckhams well endowed thanks to our dar. And mick jaggers domesticated. This is really a moment when mick jagger is doing something in private looks like its in private him awning is on the pants that is on the absolutely. You know moment to ensure he does make seemingly spontaneous snap shots taken with painstaking attention to detail here i have that light a light in one hand and a camera in the other im like a portrait painter im trying to find that exact like as i couldnt rely on a assistant camera system to the lighting because they could see the like the sun trying to achieve with the look alike. Alison jackson sets the stage and molds her models like a sculpture. Twisting and turning things until she achieves the desired effect. The people i look for just only to have a glimmer like a jewel or know something and then i can work the rest. Jackson takes powerful figures and knocks them off their pedestals shes been doing this for 2 decades and has no scruples about it dont look alike i found now it looks nothing like donald trump and i put a wig on him make a new right shade of orange you know the donald trump wig took me 15 hairstylists to make and cost about 20000. 00 pounds and then he becomes a complete stop and then this is what happens when you take a look at the phone. This is a hit that you. Think they say. Jackson holds up a mirror to society and plays with our hunger for sensationalism and which is humorous provocative and radical. One can always experiment to get what is too much of what isnt too much. Drawn in by some people secret stories and private things shouldnt none of our business so where is the line and b i think thats a question i have to throw out to all of us where is the line. Queen elizabeth getting on wax. So very straight. What Prince Charles and camilla give yoga go theres something cozily familiar about these pics we feel we know the royals intimately so we dont were in tabloid territory. Jacksons compositions satisfy our curiosity yet they also serve as a warning that in this era of fake news we always need to take a 2nd look. And i know a Television Program in london the other day use on my photographs the queen at home in private and saying that it was a real photograph then most of it was not for real photograph it was one more so what is that everything is such a bloodline isnt it. Between our desire for gossip and scandal and celebrities who stage their lives for their fans Alison Jackson knows that truth has become an unwitting casualty when i really feel that treat this dead because it really is impossible to tell what is true and what is not and we live our lives through injury this is the 1st time in the country really is a stock list as our 1st language beyond eggs beyond writing beyond anything else theres no stopping it because its such a joy to watch. So its going to breed into another the newer more and more images of a highly seductive that were never going to be able to get away from and well never know the truth. Of photoshop. Thats 30 years of photo editing time. So what about photography is claimed to represent the truth well that was yesterday today nothing is impossible because software has taught us not to believe anything unless weve seen it with our own. Intercity of the photograph still be saved. Is just a tool for something that weve known unused for a long time or do and humans like to be deceived and clients have specific ideas and its up to the photographers themselves to fill them or reject them from. Mary spice is a purist his photos are a testament to our times induction into germanys path to reunification he takes portraits of prominent politicians and currently is depicted in the fight against covert 19 ever since the advent of digital photography hes been using photoshop to brighten or emphasize certain parts of his images but he doesnt cheat this is the 1st one i do what we call darkroom work at least it makes a photo legible and for once you start to retouch a human face so you cant see any spots for example if i started doing stuff like this where i stuck the boundaries are fluid. Strict boundaries we open the gates to hell. Yet the temptation is strong photojournalists are wondering. And using photoshop enables them to create images that the competition can only 20 months. For many years. Was editor in chief of the magazine made an effort to avoid printing manipulated photos. We had a person working at we all called the forensic scientist for photos. Sensually his main job was to examine photos and to see whether they had been edited or tampered with or. That we had an instance where a photographer had always wanted to capture devoid of humans in the its usually crowded with tourists so he just added all of them out. Forgotten to also edit out the shadows projected from the tourists onto the walls we might not have found out before and there was a quite a lot of that kind of stuff which left us both surprised and shocked for. Those kind of pixel pushes take liberties with the truth and betrayed the trust people place in photography perhaps this trust was misplaced. For the going to photograph you right from the start when photography began there was always this desire this need to tamper with images photoshop was basically just a further development of an age old tool back then it was done manually as a brush and in. These brushes were often used to bend the truth for propaganda purposes individuals who had fallen out of favor would be removed or who really poses. As it wasnt just murder the also disappeared for many photos was would need. Miscellany wanted to be shown riding a horse without people seeing the Person Holding his halter to make him look more heroic. Or theres hitler. Depicted with women other than his wife. Avoid the you know how mothers mouse a tongue who didnt think it seemly to be so closely flanked by others during a parade. So that the 2 men were moved 5 meters back when they put out from where the hidden because its. And today the drama is being and top more rockets more smug. Pottle of blood replaces a puddle of water. A rolex judge to flush the night she disappeared to switch states. A photo icon of our times here to manipulation. That see things get bloggers who sit down and scrutinize the images researching every last detail comparing the photos as they appear and different publications they spotted for example at the y. In the corner of one i had been removed from an image and then thanks to further Research Went on to reveal that this famous photographer had even removed entire persons from other not quite as well known photos. Of all with stone photographer Steve Mccurry his reputation took a heavy not the discovery course in after all must fill in photography is actually trampled or nobody ethics of photojournalism but where does the truth stop and the fake begin its a question the jew you think will press photo award faces time and time again here a funeral procession in gaza i did the photographer tamper with the lighting afterwards as this is over in such a way that strangely it slipped from both sides. And in order to eliminate these morning people in the narrow alley to give them an almost religious glow. I think experts could probably spend an entire day debating this whether or not that is crossing a line and it was a move of a nice. Piece of b. L. O. Brisky has much has been part of the of the World Press Photo award but hes also won it twice himself. As a. Well you have to submit the raw data the original photograph upon request with a way they can examine how and to what extent the data has been interpreted and then you always get debates about how far photographers are allowed to go with their interpretations but even a black and white image is an abstraction and is a big change in comparison with the supposedly real situation. From. The real situation below brisky is convinced that every digital images need to protection conducted by algorithms so why wouldnt photographers take things into their own hands he believes preaching purism is naive. I believe that throughout its history the target fee has always developed in tandem with what becomes technically possible and that its impossible to limit these processes is a big. Deal of risky likes playing around with technology exploring the possibilities of freeing himself at this eternal commitment to authenticity the skies are taken from one photo and the houses from another just to click to photos become. I dont think that its being manipulated in any way god never claimed that a documentary photograph must only contain exposure to light from one side. To be on a biscuit manipulation stops with the intention to deceive and his photos however he to piece the world the way he perceived it. Intensifies or condenses images and occasionally a person might wonder from one image to another. Income if i can spend 2 hours waiting for the right moment when the composition is just the way i want to be. Done i can use the tools at my disposal of and create the composition in my mind and cops are still havent added anything from another situation to the image that ive taken the synchronicity of shooting the photo about begin creating the right composition out of the equation and i do this only to be able to participate in the debate. To say we have other possibilities now and thats not a bad thing is that. These prize winning photographers are among the 1st to grow up in a world of digital imagery and feel at home in it and this generation tends to view images with a certain skepticism nothings taken for granted their works are currently being showcased in hamburg dash to holland in an exhibition entitled good alsatian or good prospects the common theme photography in times of global descend from asian. Among the photographers is lisa hoffman shes taken pictures in crisis and doesnt trust the images we have of them she wants to form a. Skep surface order mr carr nothing skepticism and mistrust a very strong and very negatively connotation words. Of this now i would rather say a desire has arisen to look for other possibilities for representation a lot of the. Superimposes as many as 1000 photos of places like syria and the ghana stand to create a kind of the new book picture of a mass of details people and objects appear its a photographic puzzle a kind of counter image past it and what is not to get showing what remains in the background there is no clear idea of someone witnessing events instead it always includes the gaps as well in my artistic gets to ration i try to break through classical concepts of the image and long established tragedies and provide Something Else that. Photographer marcus cybil also observes events that move the world in his videos and photos to takes a perspective all his own and no faces now masses of people on the move. Only the remnant what do refugees leave behind. Is a kind of memorial to those who dont make it the cause of death or listed matter of fact larry drowning hypothermia or simply unknown photography can also be an indictment. The. Latter saying a has a very different approach to his mysterious photos or manifestations of hidden processes hundreds of points of light on the skin this is how facial recognition works when we unlock a smartphone. He captures this fraction of a 2nd with a converted single lens reflex camera using infrared imaging to reveal points that are normally invisible and transform them into an image he makes the invisible visible. As much as it makes you realize an invisible sphere surrounds you that exerts an incredibly Strong Influence on your life it makes you want to be able to locate. It awakens a deep desire instinct to bring it into the realm of perception someone who. Lives and works in often in western germany. He said at the studio in an old laundry. He moves through the sphere as he captures the intangible such as the signals from the patient satellites. Im setting up my own receiver for satellite data and i can hardly wait to see what i can pick up out of the sky today. Whats so exciting here is that its not yet such a top secret black box. You can still get into it even as a regular citizen. With a bit of technical savvy. Listening to a satellite thats almost right overhead moving above europe. Until today graphs images of the earth beneath clouds and water vapor and reveals how we observed. Mr graham a very important part of my work is the consideration of where the image comes from and that it was the sender it was the addressee ornament off the plays a decisive part you cant cut that out because then the work loses its head and its no longer exciting showing where the image comes from is every bit as important as the image itself. Its an insight into our present and a glimpse into the future as new technologies become more and more encrypted and inscrutable. Eventually happen is that these black boxes the photographs vanish into. Are there algorithms or as in this case observations out oh its more image data sent back and forth they will become less and less accessible and it will be able to examine the processes themselves with move in to go and i can come. Not all of the talk affairs are looking into the future recut a file and behave is looking the other way back to the beginnings of photography one project has her meeting her sister in a room only the 2 of them for a few days and the camera. For turkeys most basic aspects may appear simple but are in fact complex they trade roles who is 1st aggression whom who is active and who is passive. The good man i am at. My work isnt primarily a question of digital or analog my actually i take a journey back through the history of photography in a work created by me and my sister one that could hardly be more subjective or more personal thank and. Forward into the past or upwards into almost inaccessible rounds young photographers in germany are calling many things into question and shining a new night onto existing realities. I try to be as open and this free of care thats possible at the same time very relaxed to a particular moment comes together. Very concerned with the surface reality what we see on the surface at the same time what is underneath the lives of the many many layers of rock in bordeaux our can be as wandered to the worlds big cities with his rather flex lagos athens berlin pharmaco. But the images he captures are always ambiguous. Is this photo studio in togo or does it offer photos to go. Fish of a carefree child playing on the beach masks a different reality. This young girl she walks up and down probably the whole day trying to boiled eggs and shes put them down and spend the moments going on this kind of merry go around this particular social situation if her parents see her doing this that we saw that so they would be to. Born in oxford and raised in la. Can be has lived in berlin for years having experienced so many different ways of life he knows that everyone will interpret his pictures differently. Its really different realities it depends where your coverage from how you want to look at it what age you are home but sure you are all these things all the time and in my own perspective no one reality is above the other. This is the bar beach in la goes before construction started here. Time and again i can go to work and be was drawn there to the beach where all the nigerians hung a. Blind beggars being led by 2 sighted people. A woman praying. How much history how many stories has the sea washed away a lot of us cautiously own cautiously look up and have a kind of faint echo of the former slave trade were from these very shores millions of people were taken away into the new world a slave so theres a kind of very faint echo still echoing one listens in very carefully. This echo of history can also be heard in our can be african quarter project. Since the 1990 s. Hes been documenting life in the corner of berlins wedding district where many of the streets are named after former german colonies. Some streets are even named after men responsible for the deaths and suffering of countless thousands of africans. Peters. Time and time again activists blot out his name. This is 820042005 somebody i dont know who. Put it in the same kind of technology as the science the boy and the boy was the complaint against the german. And then submitted to be moved to this particular. Image the. Violence resistance and the colonial past thats yet to be addressed all compressed into the image of a single street sign. Can be always shoots his photos with an analog medium format camera and always in black and white. He doesnt need to photoshop is images all he needs is a lot of time and a little serendipity. In his every day observations of life are can both iraq and be captures the attitudes an atmosphere in the big cities of europe and africa. And he invites observers to discover the realities hidden behind the surface. A perception of reality good fragments fragments fragments fragments so its a constant quest to try because its close as possible to a reality its an ongoing. Adventure i think its very very important but i would never really caught that so i keep on trying all the time. As documentary photographer Dorothea Lange once said the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera its all for 21 by. The soviet unions secret plan. 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