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Truth in Photography Opens
22 February 2021
Truth in Photography, "an open-ended online forum for active dialogue and discussion about photography and social change," has launched a quarterly schedule of exhibitions beginning with its Winter Edition.
The free Truth in Photography opening exhibit features three curated Exhibitions: Looking for Truth in a Digital Age, The Ethics of Truth and Community and Cultural Identity.
The three exhibits collect 16 photo essays:
- Friendship Park from Spanish photographer Griselda San Martin
- Migration from Mexican photojournalist Guillermo Arias
- U.S.-Mexico Border by Magnum Photos
- Lynching Postcards: 1907; Execution for a Newsreel: 1914; Covid-19 Moscow from German-Russian documentary photographer Nanna Heitman
- Waiting: Photographs of the Terminally Ill; Homelessness; Crayon Portraits; African American Community Photographers drawn from the Texas African American Photography Archive
- Legal Aliens from NYC-based Puerto Rican photographer Clarence Elie Rivera
- American Idyll, Photographs of Paterson, New Jersey by Todd Darling
- Diasporic Identities from Korean-American photographer Mary Kang
- People of the Earth, a conversation about the photography collections of the National Museum of the American Indian between Wendy Red Star and Emily Moazami
For more information see the news release below.
Truth in Photography Launches Feb. 19
The new platform presents an ongoing dialogue about photography, ethics, and social change through an unprecedented collection of images.
Truth in Photography is an open-ended online 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 a diversity of curators, photographers, critics and historians, 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.
Working with leading international contributors -- Aperture Foundation, Family Pictures USA, the International Center of Photography, Local Learning and Magnum Photos -- Truth in Photography continues the work of Documentary Arts, a Texas and New York based non-profit organization, presenting essential perspectives on historical issues and contemporary life.
Truth in Photography will launch new virtual exhibitions quarterly.
Each new edition will present different curatorial perspectives and historical content that delves into the way image-making developed into what it is today. Photo essays, conversations with curators and photographers and the Share Your Truth portal, are all vital parts of this innovative site.
The Winter Edition Features three curated Exhibitions: Looking for Truth in a Digital Age, The Ethics of Truth and Community and Cultural Identity. All exhibitions can be viewed free to visitors worldwide at http://www.truthinphotography.org.
The Winter edition features 16 photo essays: Friendship Park, from Spanish photographer Griselda San Martin; Migration, from Mexican photojournalist Guillermo Arias; U.S.-Mexico Border: Magnum Photos; Lynching Postcards: 1907; Execution for a Newsreel: 1914; Covid-19 Moscow from German-Russian documentary photographer Nanna Heitman; Waiting: Photographs of the Terminally Ill; Homelessness; Crayon Portraits; African American Community Photographers, drawn from the Texas African American Photography Archive; Legal Aliens, from NYC-based Puerto Rican photographer Clarence Elie Rivera; American Idyll, Photographs of Paterson, New Jersey by Todd Darling; Diasporic Identities, from Korean-American photographer Mary Kang; and People of the Earth, a conversation about the photography collections of the National Museum of the American Indian between Wendy Red Star and Emily Moazami.
The exhibition also features recorded Zoom conversations with African-American photographer and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, Fred Ritchin, author of Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary and the Citizen and Pauline Vermare, Cultural Director of Magnum Photos.
An important component of the project is the ability for visitors to upload their own photos to the Web site through the Web site's Share Your Truth page. Additionally photographers, curators, critics, historians and the general public are invited to share ideas, essays, photographs or short videos and can begin this process from the Submissions page.
Truth in Photography evolved through an ongoing dialogue with Pauline Vermare (Magnum Photos), Chris Boot (Aperture Foundation); Andew Lewin, Paddy Bowman and Lisa Rathje (Local Learning) and Mark Lubell (International Center of Photography). Documentary Arts is supported in part by National Endowment for the Arts, Communities Foundation of Texas, Andrew and Marina Lewin Family Foundation and The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation.
This new platform will be a place for critical thinking and a celebration of photography's relevance and vital role in our societies at this crucial time in history. It is an invitation to look into the history of the medium through archives and contemporary work of renowned artists, as well as lesser-known practitioners and vernacular photography. The goal is to question the concept of "truth" in photography by presenting a multitude of points of view.
Documentary Arts was founded in 1985 to broaden public knowledge and appreciation of the arts of diverse cultures in all media. Under the direction of founder Alan Govenar, they have produced films, videos, radio features, public programs, educational initiatives, Web sites, exhibitions, catalogues, books and interactive multimedia. Documentary Arts is a global network of artists, photographers, filmmakers, scholars, curators, cultural specialists, social activists, historians, folklorists, archivists, teachers and community educators.