Misinformation

Had a great article sent out by the State Library of Victoria today, it was titled “Misinformation through the decades” and explores the use of what we now call Photoshop.. Well worth a read!

A sentence that certainly resonates within me “When we’re bombarded by a stream of images, daily, how can we tell what’s real and what isn’t?” as someone who looks at photography from many sources, daily, I certainly see a LOT of ‘generated’ content these days, and scarily, a lot of people ‘praising the photographer’ – Can you spot a fake? Drop us a comment.

We won’t re-print it here, that’s not cool, but we’ll drop a link to the full article, below!

On 24 July 2025, we hosted a staff forum exploring the complex world of misinformation. From retouched glass plate negatives to AI-generated bird photos, we unpacked how truth is distorted and preserved in digital collections….[read the full article]