Photographs are directed, curated, edited and adjusted according to the perceptions of the photographer. The end result is that we see what they want us to see, the imagery a canvas for our thoughts and emotions, yet indirectly shaped by another.
Do we really see what we need to see?
The notion of witnessing plays a large role in how we craft our perspectives. I bear witness. There is no other person that can replace the personal experience of witnessing, no outsider, only ourselves.
Have we seen what we claimed to see?
I'm not sure. Can you deny something you have witnessed? Can you reject a truth plainly told? Reading about the past, it seems so. Strange, yet frightening.
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