Truth in Photography is an open-ended forum for active dialogue and discussion about photography and social change, exploring issues vital to truth in image-making that are crucial to our understanding of the world today. This interactive project questions the singular truth of photography by presenting multiple points of view, featuring diverse curators, photographers, critics, and historians, and integrating vernacular photography, photojournalism, and fine art photography. Truth in Photography interrogates the nature and intentions of the medium and examines the relationship between the photographers and their subjects. Truth in Photography is produced by Documentary Arts in collaboration with Magnum Photos, Aperture Foundation, and International Center of Photography.

FALL 2021

LOOKING FOR TRUTH IN A DIGITAL AGE

UNDERSTANDING FAMILY

SANTA BARBARA
Diana Markosian

FAMILY MATTERS
​Gillian Laub

SENSE OF PLACE

RURAL
​Raymond Depardon

TRUTH IN PHOTOGRAPHY IS...

New perspectives to be published quarterly.
“Photography has historically been connected with truth. But what kind of truth regime are we talking about? Not axiomatic truth, but rather empirical truth, which depends on the interpretation of data.”
​~Joan Fontcuberta

SHARE YOUR TRUTH

Upload your own photographs to be shared on the TRUTH IN PHOTOGRAPHY website.
Most recent submission by
Michelle Thompson
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