One of the things i've come to think a lot about with my work is how i can put staged photos next to authentic one. There's nothing in any photo that tells the absolute truth and nothing that lies. A photo cannot lie as a lie implies something else.
A Photo is merely a piece of paper that contains dots, shades, lines and shapes. Whereas an image is something entirely different an image is what we see. There is three outcomes to what is seen, firstly you could see the the grain and the dots. Second, you could see a person and that person could be anyone, you just recognize that it is a person or a human. The third is that you see John, Adam, who or whatever the image is of. You see something more familiar in the image.
What you see in an image is only there because you see it, because you put it in that image. Its one of the wonderful aspects of photography, that you can see what you want in an image.
It is all to familiar to question whether a tree makes a noise if it falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it.
What i want to know is, Does an image still exist in a photo if no one is around to perceive it?
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