Don McCullin featured in 'The Camera Never Lies' at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, running until 20 October 2024.
'The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through The Incite Project' explores the impact and influence photography has had on shaping – and in some cases distorting the narrative of major global events.
The exhibition explores whether an image captured by an individual photographer, choosing one angle, with a singular crop, can show the whole truth of an event, and will also show the power and reach of war photography.
Don McCullin is one of the most notable war photographers. He opts to eschew colour for black and white, explaining that “We don’t live in a black and white world, but once you see a black and white photograph, it haunts you”. A selection of his works, including Shell-Shocked US Marine (1968), will be on display.
Sometimes seen as superior to text, photographs are now a mainstay of how the media and the public consume events such as war, famine, and celebrity. But is what people see a true reflection of the reality?
The exhibition will first look at how single photographs came to represent and define events through their repeated use in print journalism, and how narratives are shaped by them during and long after the events have occurred. The second part of the show will look at how modern practitioners of photography are using research to inform their imagery, and how they work with much more agency than in the previous century, as now the person behind the lens has more control than the picture editors at newspapers.
Curated by Harriet Logan and Tristan Lund, the works in this exhibition are drawn from The Incite Project, a private collection of photojournalism, documentary photography and photographic art with a remit to support contemporary practitioners.
Make sure to pay the exhibition a visit if you can.
Visit their website: https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/the-camera-never-lies-challenging-images-through-the-incite-project/
18 May - 20 October 2024.