Due to today's technology, it is much easier to edit digital photographs compared to in analog photography. This raises the question as to whether this disrupts the connection between photographic images and reality.
Historically, there is a belief that photography is representative of reality. It is argued that viewers continue to read digital photographs as representative of reality - a function that images have maintained despite the transition from analog to digital.
"Digital photography, and especially its apparently invisible manipulability, destroyed the photographs privileged connection to the object" Damian Sutton, 'Real photography'.
Dzenko argues that the process of reading photographs is affected by the context of the image, and that whether or not a photograph is created or distributed with digital technology its indexical function is not contradicted as many theorists have suggested. He argues that if you only focus on the supposed lack of indexicality in digital images, you ignore the social uses of analog photography that are now performed by digital images.
These ideas are relevant for my photography project because I will not be digitally creating or producing my images. They will, in fact, represent reality because I aim to portray what humanity is doing to our planet and how nature is fighting back against it.
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