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.

SUMMER 2021

LOOKING FOR TRUTH IN A DIGITAL AGE

US DISPATCHES
Sarah Perlmutter

THE PHOTO AS SNITCH
by Lisa Rathje

MARIANNE NICOLSON
LIVING MEMORY
by Miranda Belarde-Lewis

TRANSMISSION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC TRUTH

FINDING FAMILY

FAMILY PICTURES USA
Thomas Allen Harris

MISSING PERSONS
Yael Martínez

TRUTH IN PHOTOGRAPHY IS...

New perspectives to be published quarterly.
“If photography ‘does not lie,’ it is not because it necessarily delivers the truth, but rather because it says nothing, or in any case nothing that is absolute.”
​~Stéphanie Solinas

SHARE YOUR TRUTH

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