I mean that the content of the message was more important than the respect to some conditions of the reality and to a certain use of the photographic language. Another example would be the Brazilian photographer, Sebastiao Salgado . His photographs seem to be stills of a Hollywood movie. There's an obvious will to make them shocking and effective. I think that the documentary photographer always defends this idea of reflecting reality without any intervention, but it is impossible to reflect the reality of a situation without subjectivity, without assuming a personal point of view.
All photographs are interpretations.
It's very difficult to lie in photographs. But like your work in Sputnik, putting the texts beside photographs makes them all appear so real. Joan I don't think it's difficult to lie with photographs at all. However, it is true that usually photographs imply a text. A text which stands physically there, or which is just symbolically or historically suggested.