How valuable is photography is exposing reality and promoting change?

photography is exposing reality

Whether photography is exposing reality and promoting change

• War photography, for example, Capa, McCullin
• Images of poverty
• Animal survival
A photograph can say more than words
• However the photograph can lie or distort
• Intrusiveness, for example, the paparazzi
• Historical record
• Vanishing cultures
• Threatened environments
• People can become inured to the images – could be counter-productive