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with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all speak up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom of choice global news that matters w made for minds. for . our perception of reality going to get fragments fragments fragments from.
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how can we trust photos to tell the truth now that new technology has made almost anything possible kind of photographic image still lay claim to authenticity or piece fakery reality it's 21 looks finances. lady di had had enough. george w. bush was searching for a solution. and meghan mark on prince harry showing off the royal jewels. photographer allison jackson appears to capture celebrities when their guard is down and give us new insights into their world. but is seen really believing things as the whole mechanism of photography itself is a longing to see for medium a so what i mean really in that should not be transmitted. actually we still want
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to be seduced we still want to be believing in it. allison jackson plays with this inherent contradiction in her pop rock. staged using doubles. so i create the photographs that we've all imagined we'd never seen before now that sounds just like a simple mechanism but it's just getting the edge right because as you say you don't go a little bit too far and you don't want to go a little bit too late so it's just finding the right edge works absolutely david beckham's well endowed thanks to akbar. and mick jagger's domesticated that's really a moment when mick jagger's doing something in private looks like it's in private him awnings on the paths of his underpants absolutely. remember to ensure he does make seemingly spontaneous snap shots taken with
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painstaking attention to detail here i have that light a light in one hand and a camera in the other i'm like a portrait painter i'm trying to find that exact light as i could rely on a assistant camera system to the light thing because they could see the necklace i'm trying to achieve with the lookalike. i was in jackson sets the stage and molds her models like a sculpture. twisting and turning things until she achieves the desired of back to . the people i look for just only to have a glimmer like a jewel lawyer or nurses or something and then i can work the rest. jackson takes powerful figures and knocks them off their pedestals she's been doing this for 2 decades and has no scruples about it. donald trump look alike i found
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now it looks nothing like donald trump but a wig on him make a new right shade of orange you know the donald trump wig took me 15 hairstylists to make and cost about 20000 pounds and then he becomes a complete nonstop and then this is what happens when you sit in the polite tone. this is a fit that new york. people go crazy. alison jackson holds up a mirror to society and plays with our hunger for sensationalism and we're just you must provide give and radical. always experiment what is too much and what isn't too much with drawn in by some people secret stories and the private things shouldn't a none of our business so where is the line and the i think that's
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a question i have to throw out to all of us where is the line. queen elizabeth getting a wax. so much so right. while prince charles and camilla give yo go go there's something cozily familiar about these pics we feel we know the royals intimately but we don't we're in tabloid territory. for the. jacksons compositions satisfy our curiosity and yet they also serve as a warning that in this era of fake news we always need to take a 2nd look. and i know a television b.b.c. programme in london the other day i use on my photographs the queen at home in private saying that it was a real photograph. then most of it was not for real photograph it was for the more
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so what is that everything is such a blood louis it's a. between our desire for gossip and scandal and celebrities who stage their lives for their fans in jackson knows that truth has become an unwitting casualty when i really feel that truth is dead because it really is impossible to tell what is true and what is not and we live our lives through injury this is the 1st time in the tree really is a stamp wish his office language beyond existence beyond writing beyond anything else there's no stopping it because it's such a joy to watch those shows so it's going to breed into another newer and more and more images of a highly seductive that we're never going to be able to get away from and we'll never know the truth.
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when she uses a photoshop. that's 30 years of fresh. time. so what about photography is claimed to represent the truth well that was yesterday and today nothing is impossible to software has taught us not to believe anything less would seem like our own. city of the photograph still be saved. or focus no to shop is just a tool for something that we've known and used for a long time and humans like to be deceived and clients have specific ideas and it's up to the photographers themselves to fill them or reject them. mary spice is a purist his photos are a testament to our times. he documented germany's path to reunification he takes
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portraits of prominent politicians and currently is to preach in the fight against 19 ever since the advent of digital photography he's been using photoshop to brighten the info size certain parts of his images but he doesn't cheat this doesn't become i do what we call darkroom work at least it makes a photo legible but once you start to retouch a human face so you can't see any spots for example if i started doing stuff like this where. the boundaries are fluid we don't set strict boundaries we open the gates to hell. yet the temptation is strong photojournalists are under increasing pressure and using photoshop enables them to create images that the competition can only 20 months. for many years. was editor in chief of the magazine made an effort to avoid printing manipulated photos.
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we had a person working at we all called the forensic scientist for photos. essentially of his main job was to examine photos and to see whether they had been edited or tampered with or. that we had an instance where a photographer had always wanted to capture devoid of humans in its usually crowded with tourists so he just edited all of them out of the not forgotten to also edit out the shadows projected from the tourists onto the walls we might not have found out. and there was a quite a lot of that kind of stuff for us both surprised and shocked for them. those kind of pixel pushes take liberties with the truth and betrayed the trust people place in photography but perhaps this trust was misplaced. for the are going to photograph you right from the start when photography began there was always this desire this need to tamper with them it. photoshop is basically just
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a further development of an age old tool back then it was done manually as a brush and in. these brushes were often used to bend the truth for propaganda purposes. or who really staged as it wasn't just murdered in the also disappeared for many photos was when the. miscellany wanted to be shown riding a horse without people seeing the person holding his halter to make him look more heroic. or there's hitler. wanted gerbils depicted with women other than his wife of. the. who didn't think it seemly to be so closely flanked by others during a parade. so the 2 men were moved 5 meters back when they put out. and today the trauma is being amped up more rockets more smug.
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little of blood replaces a puddle of water. a rolex judged to flush the night she disappeared as to switch stains. a photo icon of our times here to manipulation. see things get bloggers who sit down and scrutinize the images researching every last detail comparing the photos as they appear and different publications they spotted for example at the y. in the corner of one i had been removed from an image and then thanks to further research went on to reveal that this famous photographer had even removed entire persons from other not quite as well known photos. at the. stone photographer steve mccurry as reputation took a heavy not the discovery course in aprile months fell at the top of his head he trampled all over the ethics of photojournalism the way tells the truth stop and
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the fake begin it's a question the jew you think will press photo award faces time and time again a funeral procession in gaza i did the photographer tamper with the lighting afterwards of course in such a way that strangely it slipped from both sides. and in order to eliminate these morning people in the narrow alley to give them an almost religious glow. i think experts could probably spend an entire day debating this whether or not that is crossing a line that was of a nice. piece in the olive branch has not just been part of the jewelry of the world press photo award but he's also won it twice himself. as a well you have to submit the raw data the original photograph upon request with that way they can examine how and to what extent the data has been interpreted and then you always get debates about how far photographers are allowed to go. with their interpretations but even a black and white image is an abstraction and is
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a big change in comparison with the supposedly real situation but from. the real situation below brisky is convinced that every digital image is an interpretation conducted by algorithms so why wouldn't photographers take things into their own hands he believes preaching purism is naive. i believe that throughout its history the talk of you has always developed in tandem with what becomes technically possible and that it's impossible to limit these processes is the bigger to push the on of risky lights playing around with technology exploring the possibilities of freeing himself at this eternal commitment to authenticity the skies are taken from one photo and the houses from another it's just a click to photos become. i don't think that it's being manipulative in any way god never claimed that a documentary photograph must only contain exposure to light from one side.
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to be out of this community starts with the intention to deceive and his photos however he depicts the world the way he perceived it. intensifies all condenses images and occasionally a person might wander from one image to another. and come if i can spend 2 hours waiting for the right moment when the composition is just the way i want to be. i can use the tools at my disposal of and create the composition in my mind and cops are still haven't added anything from another situation to the image that i've taken the synchronicity of shooting the photo begin creating the right composition out of the equation and i do this only to be able to participate in the debate so to say we have other possibilities now and that's not a bad thing is that he gets interesting.
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these prize winning photographers are among the 1st to grow up in a world of digital imagery and feel at home in it and this new generation tends to view images with a certain skepticism nothing's taken for granted their works a cowardly being showcased in hamburg dash to holland in an exhibition and titled good alsatian or good prospects the common theme photography in times of global descend from asian. among the photographers is lisa hoffman she's taken pictures in crisis and doesn't trust the images we have of them she wants to form our own. scripts ers what a mistake on my think skepticism and mistrust a very strong and very negative connotation words. of no i would rather say a desire has arisen to look for other possibilities for representation a lot of the. she superimposes as many as 1000 photos of places like syria and the ghana stand to create a kind of the new book picture of
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a mass of details people and objects appear it's a photographic puzzle a kind of counter image basket and what is not to get showing what remains in the background there is no clear idea of someone witnessing events is that it always includes the gaps as well in my artistic gets to ration i try to break through classical concepts of the image and long established tragedies and provide something else that. photographer marcus cybil also observes events that move the world in his videos and photos to takes a perspective all his own and no faces no masses of people on the move only the remnants what do refugees leave behind. is a kind of memorial to those who don't make it the cause of death are listed matter of fact late drowning hypothermia also. photography can also be an indictment. rather
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saying i has a very different approach his mysterious photos are manifestations of hidden processes hundreds of points of light on the skin this is how facial recognition works when we unlock a smartphone. he catches this fraction of a 2nd with a converted single lens reflex camera using infrared imaging to reveal points that are normally invisible and transform them into an image makes the invisible visible . as much as it makes you realize an invisible sphere surrounds you that exerts an incredibly strong influence on your life i mean it makes you want to be able to locate it and we don't want to pinpoint it awakens a deep desire instinct to bring it into the realm of perception i've got someone who. lives and works in often in western germany.
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he said at the studio in an old laundry. he moves through and. he captures the intangible such as the signals from earth observation satellites. i'm setting up my own receiver for satellite data and i can hardly wait to see what i can pick up out of the sky today or that's what's so exciting is that it's not yet such a top secret black box. you can still get into it even as a regular citizen that's. what remains hidden. with a bit of technical savvy. listening to a satellite that's almost right overhead moving about europe. turns this until today into photographs images of the earth beneath clouds and water vapor and reveals how we observed and.
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since mr graham a very important part of my work was the consideration of where the image comes from and that i was the sender it was the addressee or the month off with me that plays a decisive part you can't cut that out because then the work loses dead and is no longer exciting showing where the image comes from is every bit as important as the image itself. it's an insight into our present and a glimpse into the future as new technologies become more and more encrypted and inscrutable. eventually happen is that these black boxes the photographs vanish into. are there algorithms or as in this case observations out of lights more image data sent back and forth they will become less and less accessible you will be was able to examine the processes themselves with the movie in a go i can come. not all of photographers are looking into the future recut of fallen behavior is looking the other way back to the beginnings of photography one
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project has her meeting her sister in a room only the 2 of them for a few days and the camera. the doctor fees most basic aspects may appear simple but are in fact complex they trade roles who is 1st a graphic who who is active and who is passive. the good man i am at. my work isn't primarily a question of digital and analog my you have actually i take a journey through the history of photography in a work created by me and my sister one that could hardly be more subjective or more personal thanks and. forward into the past or upwards into almost inaccessible rounds young photographers in germany are calling many things into question and shining a new knight onto existing realities. i
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try to be as open of this free of care as possible at the same time very relaxed to a particular moment comes together. very concerned with the surface reality what we see on the surface at the same time what is underneath the lives of the many many layers and i can border i can be as wandered to the world's big cities with this rather flex lagos' athens berlin bomb a call. but the images he captures are always ambiguous. as this photo studio in togo doesn't offer photos to go. this shot of a carefree child playing on the beach masks a different reality. this young girl she walks up and
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down probably the whole day trying to boiled eggs and she's put them down and spend a moment going on this kind of merry go around this particular social situation if her parents see her doing this they'd be salk's it so there would be 2. born in oxford and raised in la. can be has lived in berlin for years having experienced so many different ways of life he knows that everyone will interpret his pictures differently. assuming a different reality is the prism where the coverage from how you want to look at it what age you are how but sure you are all these things all the time and in my own perspective no one reality is above the other. this is the bar beach in largo's before construction started here. time and again i can go to work and be was drawn
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there to the beach where all the nigerians hung out. blind beggars being led by 2 sighted people. a woman praying. how much history how many stories has the sea washed away a lot of us cautiously own cautiously look out and have a kind of faint echo of the former slave trade we're from these very shores millions of people were taken away into the new world slaves so there's a kind of very faint echo still echoing one listens in very carefully. this echo of history can also be heard in our can be african quarter project. since the 1990 s. he's been documenting life in the quarter of berlin's wedding district where many of the streets are named after former german colonies. some streets are even named after men responsible for the deaths and suffering of countless thousands of
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africans. peters. time and time again activists blot out his name. this is about 20042005 somebody i don't know who. put the same kind of technology as the science. and that was the complaint against the german. and then some attempt to be moved to. embrace the. violence resistance and the colonial past that's yet to be addressed all compressed into the image of a single street sign. can be always shoots his photos with an analog medium format camera and always in black and white. he doesn't need to photoshop his image is all he needs is a lot of time and a little serendipity. in
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his every day observations of life arc in both iraq and captures the attitudes and atmosphere in the big cities of europe and africa. and he invites observers to discover the realities hidden behind the surface. perception of reality fragments fragments fragments fragments so it's a constant quest to try to get as close as possible to reality. learning adventure i think it's very very important but i would never really caught
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that so i keep on trying all the time. as documentary photographer dorothea lange once said the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see. it so for $21.00 by. coming.
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into the conflict zone sebastian india's government is in the firing line it's home and abroad confused to stop me coming back around the bombers and lying about the use of fossil between its own troops and chinese forces in the follow my guest this week from new delhi is sudan to show maybe a member of the awesome column of the national spokesperson for the b j p complex. 30 minutes in dublin.
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they say protecting society. in a tree manifesto asimovs song writing group isn't terrorizing the 6 o'clock. but has pushed back the month old son from within the most distant chance that people are trying to deescalate the tense situation bam bam 16. double. slit. carefully i don't know. simply trying to do good.
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to scuttle. leg. documentary to. play is for me to blame this for. this for hello glenn beethoven. beethoven is trying. for his 4th place beethoven 202250th anniversary here on.
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