Matt Hughes - ‘With Regard to the Credibility of Images’
“Since its early inception, photography has been rooted in curiosity and experimentation; many minds combining to replicate our own human interpretation of reality…”
'With Regard to the Credibility of Images' is a body of work that explores the cultural establishment of photography as a tool with which to replicate this perception of reality.
My work playfully contrasts modern photography with early image making techniques, to explore the potential flaws in our inherent, naive acceptance of the photograph as a document of truth.
“…the fact that we now live in a world where more than 1.8 billion images are uploaded to websites every day suggests that people see images as having great value, while at the same time it poses further challenges with regard to the credibility of images.” (D. Campbell, The Integrity of The Image, 2014)