Now, everyone has the opportunity to talk to half the world all by just typing away on the keyboard. Yet no one really takes the time to think of what they are going to say or if even the truth will be said. Like in photography, a photo can mean a thousand different things. With stage constructed images, it shows one image and you can immediately state what the meaning or concept is behind it.
In Leo Manovich’s, essay The Paradoxes of Digital Photography, a point is made how all these new technologies has changed the way we develop our ideas and concepts in terms of photography. Digital photographs can be altered and manipulated to the point where the function of the photograph changes. It allows one to cover a blemish that should not be there and makes the lighting better and so on. However, relating this to people, like photography we have also become jaded. One makes it seem like they are completely different on the Internet rather than how they are in real life, and on average, we as a society seem to spend more time on the Internet meeting people, than one does in person.
This digital revolution has been great in terms of developing skills in photography and beyond, but it has also strayed us from the truth. The concept of secrets, though not as thoroughly researched has helped me to discover things about myself and about the world I live in.
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I have also reworked the Photo Assignment, because I felt that it didn't express enough the concept that everyone has something that is so hidden, that it takes talking to to realize the story behind the person.
