The manipulation of photography in the digital age raises questions about truth, authenticity, and the nature of reality. Social media and digital editing tools have created a flood of manipulated content, eroding trust and credibility. This article explores the consequences of this manipulation.
In Orwell's novel the manipulation of information, particularly through altered photography and ‘newspeak’ served as a potent tool wielded to control narratives and rewrite the truth. Today, in our digital age , the manipulation of photography has taken on new dimensions, raising profound questions about truth, authenticity and the very nature of reality itself. Let’s face it we all do it, editing a selfie with better lighting, clipping, airbrushing, touching up, removing, polishing.
Is there a moral confusion to the recent outrage of the Royal’s Mother’s Day photo? The advent of digital editing tools and the proliferation of social media platforms has created manipulated content, who knows what’s real anymore? Social media has unleashed a torrent of misinformation, propaganda, and manipulated imagery into our collective consciousness, who can forget seeing the Pope in a puffer jacket? The manipulation of information has fuelled toxic hate, distrust, polarisation and even war. Not to mention damaging our children’s mental health. From airbrushed models in advertisements to digitally altered landscapes in travel brochures. Digitally altered photographs are everywhere. The consequences of this manipulation are profound, eroding trust in the authenticity of visual evidence and undermining the credibility of journalism and media organisations striving to uphold ethical standards. Propaganda and manipulation have always existed
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