Kirsty Baker
Dr. Kirsty Baker is a curator and writer, originally from Scotland, who lives and works in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her book Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa is due to be published with Auckland University Press in July 2024.
We know that photographs lie. Or, rather, that they can be made to lie. It would be clean, easy, to refute the possibility of visual veracity, to declare that contemporary photographic images are too vulnerable to manipulation to ever show us something that we could consider true.
