The Power of Ambiguity in Photography

There are images where you'll always wonder what's going on. And really, these are some of the most powerful photographs you can make. In fact, it's a big part of photojournalism. If you didn't know about what 9/11 was, for example, you'd find David Handschuh's award winning image to be rather ambiguous.

You'd also then need to acknowledge that there is an entire population of humans who were born after 9/11 who probably would have no idea what the Twin Towers looked like. To them, these photographs would be very ambiguous. To understand this, we have to think about more of the idea of curiosity than ambiguity in photography.

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2025-1-15 23:00

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