Lake at dawn
Amri Arfianto
Fujifilm X-T1, 10-24mm, 28secs at f/22, ISO 200 WE DON'T think twice about accepting fiction in art forms such as painting, films and writing, but when it comes to photography, many of us expect some sort of truth. Photography can be truth, and it is very good at it, but it can also be a dreamy romanticism of reality or a blatant fabrication of events. Truth, ‘enhanced' truth or untruth – it doesn't really matter, so long as we understand the status of what we are looking at and the photographer isn't actively lying to the audience.
Amri's picture is, I suspect, a version of the truth that has rather more colour than could be seen by the naked eye. However, nature is genuinely wondrous,…
