The religious aspect of photography in modern world

Was this image of the lost lake city created or taken?

The religious aspect of photography in modern world

Is photography religion. Are photo enthusiastic''''s possibly the biggest religious sect there is. One might think so. The article I wrote about in my last blog has now been written about in all major media on the internet that writes about photography.

Still the majority is following the unbelievable thinking of photography as a truthful medium. Some thing that is created by pointing a camera at a thing and then pressing the button.
It is probably there for that you almost never hear a photographer talk about the image he created. They are for the most part hunters. They go out and shoot. Preferably with big big 400mm or 800mm lenses. Photographers do not create and even in the language we do not have creation in the context of photography. Why is that. Because we have decided, just like we decide up on religion, that we believe. By doing that we also decide we do not doubt. So we get to the point where believing is easier than doubting and from there on we go.

Laymen would instantly up on seeing the image above ask in what country, in what city I did take the image. They understand that part of the medium. They would not hesitate, not even to day, and ask is this image real. What is the man thinking by presenting this image.

Photography deals with the dilemma of believes in life. Of course it is the livelihood of thousands of photographers that is at stake and they as well as the publications they work for will do any thing to make the world still believe that everything that you see in a photograph is true.

The fact is every thing you see in a photograph is maybe.
Every thing was there, but you can not tell by certainty that what is presented is true.
It can be true in the heart of the photographer but it is maybe not true in the eyes of someone standing next to him.

Asking weather a photograph represents the truth is like asking is there a god. Some will say yes some will say no and you can not be sure. The same goes for photography.

The photograph above is truthful in its parts. Every part of the image was there when they where carved in to the sensor. Still this city this lake does not exist in that context as the parts are from four different countries, five different locations