This year, the Festival has taken the current post-truth era as its inspiration, looking at how photography can be used to influence opinion; from carefully choreographed photo-shoots to image manipulation and misrepresentation. “The camera never lies,” the age-old saying goes, but increasingly consumers are having to be evermore diligent in distinguishing fact from fiction and photography has a crucial role to play in the era where billions of new images are captured daily and content is consumed at a staggering rate.

Through a range of exhibitions, talks, workshops, screening, reviews, and tours, the Festival will explore how photography has a particular role in shaping our views. With a focus on sources of authority that many have come to question, from the press to politics and science we look at the ability of the camera to depict the truth and the untruthful, as well as how this ability has been embraced by photographic artists. Presenting photography as a bride of sight and not truth.