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.

WINTER 2021

LOOKING FOR TRUTH IN A DIGITAL AGE

THE WALL
Griselda San Martin

MIGRATION
Guillermo Arias

THE ETHICS OF TRUTH

COVID-19 MOSCOW
​​Nanna Heitmann

HOMELESSNESS
Alan Govenar

COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

LEGAL ALIENS
Clarence Elie Rivera

AMERICAN IDYLL
Todd Darling

PEOPLE OF THE EARTH
Wendy Red Star and Emily Moazami

TRUTH IN PHOTOGRAPHY IS...

New perspectives to be published quarterly.
“Photography’s power surely rests not on some literal relation to thing observed, but rather, in how it triggers our imaginations, and shapes our perceptions and points of view.”
​~Chris Boot
Executive Director, Aperture Foundation

SHARE YOUR TRUTH

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