According to Ritchin, all images are subject to manipulation. This could be good or bad depending on whether the viewer is aware. Ritchin explains how photography is often confused with truth. Photography in all forms represents a rich and variegated language that is filled with subtlety, ambiguity, revelation, and distortion. This means that photography may not capture an event that has actually occured or if it has it may have occurred very differently than how it is represented.
Photographs are open to interpretation.
Ritchin discusses the new digital age in which the internet controls images. Therefore, images are only transferred from the page to the screen thus eliminating new creative ideas. These images are very easy to manipulate. In fact, manipulation has occurred since the very beginning years of photography. For years photographers have controlled the subject that they capture.