Does the camera ever lie?

The famous Cottingley fairy photographs rate as the greatest psychic photographic hoax of the 20th century. Branded “the first deepfake” by the History Channel,1 they have fascinated audiences for gen

Compare tim flach’s wildlife portraits with almost identical images created by artificial intelligence (AI) and you are aware of two things – they are remarkably lifelike but you can still quite easil

John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th-century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the first interview – American photographer Paul Strand in Paris – that kicked it off, followed by extracts from the recorded encounter

Richard Sibley uses the latest Adobe Photoshop filters and other AI software to edit, restore and bring old family photos back to life