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. 21 looks finances. Lady di had had enough. George w. Bush was searching for a solution. And make a mark on prince harry showing off the royal jewels. Ringback photographer 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 longing to see for medium a saw i mean really and should not be translated but actually we still want to be seduced we still want to be believing in. Alison jackson plays with this inherent contradiction in our paparazzi pics are staged using doubles. So i create a graph 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 its little bit too tall and a little bit less is just finding the right edge works absolutely David Beckhams well endowed thanks to our dark. And mick jaggers domesticated. This is really a moment where mick jaggers doing something in private looks like its in private him awning is on the pants of his underpants absolutely. Sure he does maybe seemingly spontaneous snapshots 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 jeweler in 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 donald trump lookalike i thought and now it looks nothing like donald trump put a wig on him make a new right shade of orange you know the donald trump wig took me 15 hairstylist to make can cost about 20000 pounds and then he becomes a complete stop and then this is what happens when you take the local phone call. This is a hit back in new york. He goes crazy. Jackson holds up a mirror to society and plays with our hunger for sensationalism and which is humorous provocative and radical. Always experiments here and what is too much of what isnt too much were drawn in by some people secret stories and private things that we shouldnt none of our business so where is the line and the i think thats a question i have to throw out to all of us where is the line. Queen elizabeth getting a wax. Sorry so right. While Prince Charles and camilla give yoga go theres something cozily familiar about these pics we feel we know the royals intimately but we dont were in tabloid territory. Jackson 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 b. B. C. Programme in london the other day used on my photographs the queen at home in private saying that it was a real photograph then most of it was not real photograph it was one more so what is that everything is such a blurred line isnt it. Between our desire for gossip and scandal and celebrities who stage their lives for their fans and jackson those that truth has become an unwitting casualty when i really feel that truth is 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 imagery really is a stamp wish to us our 1st language beyond existence beyond writing beyond anything else theres no stopping it because its such a joy to watch. So its going to breed into a new. Newer more and more images that are 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 fashion. So what about photography is claimed to represent the truth well that was yesterday today nothing is impossible. One has taught us not to believe anything unless weve seen it with our own. Candy authenticity of the photograph still be saved. Is just a tool for something that weve known unused for a long time and humans like to be deceived and clients have specific ideas and its up to the photographers themselves to fill them or reject them. No response is a purist his photos are a testament to our times he documented germanys path to reunification he takes portraits of prominent politicians and currently has to preach in the fight against covert 19 ever since the advent of digital photography hes been using photoshop to brighten emphasize certain parts of his images but he doesnt cheat this is what i do what we call darkroom work at least it makes a photo legible and you start to retouch a human face so you cant see any spots for example if i started doing stuff like this where i stop the boundaries are fluid and if we dont set 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 train month. For many years peta mathias 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. Essential of his main job was to examine photos and to see whether they had been edited or tampered with. But we had an instance where a photographer had always wanted to capture devoid of humans in that its usually crowded with tourists so he just did it all of them out. How do you not forgotten to also edit out the shadows projected from the tourists onto the walls we might not have found out before and there isnt quite a lot of that kind of stuff which left us both surprised and shocked for the. Kind of pixel pushes take liberties with the truth and betrayed the trust people place in photography but 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 is 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. Would be removed or who really poses staged. Wasnt just murdered 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. Of the. 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 him because its. And today the drama is being amped up more rockets more smug. A panel of blood replaces a puddle of water. A rolex judge to flush the night she disappeared as to swing states. A photo like one of the times he had to manipulation. That you 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. At the all with nym style photographer Steve Mccurry as reputation took a heavy not the discovery course in aprile must fill a photographer as has he trampled all over the 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 she had a funeral procession in gaza i did the photographer tamper with the lighting afterwards this is cool but have i done 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 with the of a nice. Piece of b. L. O. Brisky has much as being part of the jewelry of the World Press Photo award but hes also won it twice himself. As a sort of us them. Well you have to submit the raw data the original photograph upon request with that 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 is convinced that every digital image is new 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 talk of you 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 free himself at this eternal commitment to all thing to city the skies are taken from one photo and the houses from another its just a click to photos become. I dont think that its being manipulative in any way never claim that a documentary photograph must only contain exposure to light from one side. To be out of this instance with the intention to deceive and his photos however he to piece the world the way he perceived it. Intensifies all condenses images and if a person might wonder from one image to another. And come if i could spend 2 hours waiting for the right moment when the composition is just the way i want to be. I can use the tools at my disposal of and create the composition in my mind and are still havent added anything from another situation to the image that ive taken the synchronicity of shooting the photo in creating the right composition out of the equation and i do this only to be able to participate in the debate it. 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 new generation tends to view images with a certain skepticism nothing is taken for granted their works a cowardly being showcased in hamburg dash to holland in an exhibition and titled 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 your own. Scripts surface what a missed car and i think skepticism and mistrust a very strong and very negative connotation words. And id 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 who witnessed seeing 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 no 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 late drowning hypothermia or simply unknown photography can also be an indictment. Rather saying a has a very different approach is mysterious photos are manifestations of hidden processes hundreds of points of light on the scan 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 i mean it makes you want to be able to locate it and you dont to pinpoint it it awakens a deep desire instinct to bring it into the realm of perception about someone who. Lives and works in often in western germany. He said at the studio in an old laundry. He moves through fear as he captures the intangible such as the signals from observations that light. 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 or thats 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. Turns this until the data into photographs 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 who was the addressee on them and that plays a decisive part you cant cut that out because then the work loses dead and is 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 food. Their algorithms or as in this case observations out of lights or image data sent back and forth they will become less and less accessible they will be was able to examine the processes themselves with movie to go by and i can come. Not all of photographers are looking into the future recut a file and behavior 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. Photography is most basic aspects may appear simple but are in fact complex they trade roles who is 1st a question who who is active and who is passive. A 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. Forward into the past or upwards into almost inaccessible rounds young photographers in germany are calling many things into question and shining a new knight onto existing realities. I try to be as open as free of cares as possible at the same time very relaxed where a particular moment comes together. Very concerned with the surface reality what we see of the self is at the same time what is underneath the lives of the many many layers of our can border are can be as wandered to the worlds big cities with his rather flex lagos athens berlin bomb a call. But the images he captures are always ambiguous. Is this photo studio in togo or does it offer photos to go. This shot of a carefree child playing on the beach masks a different reality. This young girl she walks up and down probably to the whole day trying to boiled eggs and split them down and spend the moments going on this kind of many go around this particular social situation if her parents see her doing this they saw it so they will might even be to. Born in oxford and raised in laos 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 their coverage from how you want to look at it what if you are home but sure you are all the 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 and b. Was drawn there to the beach where all the nigerians hung out. 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 all cautiously look up and have a kind of faint echo of the former slave trade with from these very shores millions of people were taken away into the new world slaves so theres a kind of very faint echo still echoing in 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 quarter of district where many of the streets are named after former german colonies. Some streets are even named after a man 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 this same kind of technology as the science. And was the. Against the german. And then moved to. Image the. Violence resistance and the colonial past thats yet to be addressed all compressed into the image of a single street sign. Always shoots his photos with an analog medium format camera and always in black and white he doesnt need to photoshop his images all he needs is a lot of time and a little serendipity. In his every day observations of life in both iraq and captures the attitudes and atmosphere in the big cities of europe and africa. And he invites observers to discover the realities hidden behind the surface. Reality the good fragments fragments. Its fragments so its a constant quest to try to get as close as possible to reality yet its an ongoing learning adventure i think its very very important but i would never ever see that really caught so i keep on trying all the time. It was. As documentary photographer Dorothea Lange once said the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera its all for arts 21 by. 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