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“Do photos not tell a lie?”
Once, I went to a photography workshop held in Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia by a photographer. The photographer had a workshop entitled with ‘Telling a Lie with Photos.’ In his first class, the photographer asked the students, “What do you think a photo is?” They confidently answered that photos are document and evidence of a fact. The photographer showed them how well photos can tell a lie. After the workshop was done, he asked the question again. Hesitating to say, they could not answer the question readily.

A Photo, indeed, is a good liar. That is not because now we …