Photography can be a beautiful thing. It allows us, essentially, to communicate- to literally illustrate our angers, our joys, our worries. It allows us to educate. But when people opt to manipulate an image in effort to manipulate the masses, or even just one person, photography is distorted into a misleading fallacy. It's stripped of it's truth-revealing nature and made into something only humans could be capable of fabricating: lies.
Granted, some forms of photography allow, even encourage for creative alterations to be devised. However, when one is supposed to report the world how it really is, it's unacceptable, even in terms of the smallest details, to alter what is seen through the viewfinder the second the shutter goes off.
Photojournalism 1B
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