When does presenting life in its best light become misrepresentation, and what's the cost?
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