Is Photography Reflection Of Reality Or An Eacape From It?

They say-PHOTOPGRAPH, a picture painted by the sun without instructions in art and PHOTOGRAPHY, a mighty art of observation.

Taking an image, freezing a moment. Reveals how rich the reality truly is. In photography, there is reality so subtle that it becomes more real than the reality. When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things. As yes, a photograph is a secret about a secret and the more it tells you, the less you know!

Photographs have been used for over a century now for capturing moments of mankind and things around him, although photography dates back to the 4 th century B.C. But since its use, arguments have fired up to know whether photography can reflect the truth, the reality or instead does push us away from it?

Well, photography is just another art where an artist puts his thoughts and imaginations on a canvas using his reality. Hence, photography may not show what the reality is; it shows how the photographer views the world or how he wants us to be seeing the world! Whatever is present forth the camera lenses is captured onto the film and there stands no scope for the image generated to show what it holds, what remains unsaid and unrevealed. But no. Each photograph captured does have story of its own and in photography, no shadows end up illuminated

Hence, the photographs at times create hyper reality which just exaggerates reality and thus may or may not be truth. It simply acts as a thin line between reality and fantasy showing what you want to see. Nevertheless lays beauty. Beauty that can be composed, that which can communicate a fact, touches the heart and the leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. In a sentence, “Photograph is not which is taken.. it is infact what you make”