re: #117 Political Atheist

This is circumstantial obviously-An honest image, the verite is lost And then of course if you lie about it that compounds it. You might be cheating the scene for money, or hits and clicks.

Some kinds of photography are made up of whole cloth-The studio shoot. But then we have the kind of thing at hand here-Urban decay shot of some journalistic image like those was images. I had a talk with some other photographers about the civil war staging. We saw that as a cheat at best and possibly desecrating the bodies.

By camera angle, timing, lighting, color and perspective all photography is an unreal abstraction of a moment. Consciously or not, it is impossible not to editorialize.