"We crave visual reassurance of 'reality', and so we invest too much trust into the photograph--thinking it to be a reliable reflection of the world.
"This trust which we place upon the photographic image is its greatest potential weapon. John Tagg, in his book, The Burden of Representation, writes of a 'regime of truth' which is brought about by the growth and consolidation of the capitalist nations' power, and 'in which photographs functioned as a means of record and a source of evidence.' He pinches the term 'Regime of truth' from Foucault, who coined it to describe the power structure which places a high value on, so-called, objective knowledge."
--Amedeo Felix
[ photograph above: Greece, 1993 ]
