Does the Camera Never Lie? The American documentary photographer Lewis Hine said, "the camera never lies". But then Lewis was born in 1874, and he'd never met a digital SLR camera or an Instagram filter. Lewis wasn't a complete starry-eyed idealist about photography. He also said: "While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph". Truthful imagery is something I've considered a lot in my career as a photographer. Today, as I teach retailers to take desirable photographs o