Truth in Photography is an online magazine that explores issues vital to truth in image-making that are crucial to our understanding of the world today. This website questions the concept of truth in photography by presenting multiple points of view, featuring diverse curators, photographers, critics, and historians, and integrating vernacular photography, photojournalism, and art photography. Truth in Photography interrogates the nature and intentions of the medium and examines the relationship between photographers and their subjects. Truth in Photography is produced by Documentary Arts in collaboration with Magnum Photos, Aperture, and International Center of Photography.

WINTER 2025

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HOME FROM HOME
Evgeniya Strigina

PYRAMIDEN
Louise Faure

40 YEARS OF DOCUMENTARY ARTS

JASPER, TEXAS
Alonzo Jordan and Alan Govenar

KENYA – DOCUMENTING LIVING HERITAGE
James Muriuki and Alan Govenar

TRUTH IN
​PHOTOGRAPHY IS...

An Essay Series
“For me, truth is only in the thing that you're looking at. That moment is the only truthful moment. And beyond that, everyone can derive interpretations that could be aspects of truth in themselves.”
​~James Muriuki

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