Truth – Definition: ‘the quality or state of being true.’                   – True: in accordance with fact or reality.

For many people, truth is something that can be defined as a fact. For example, we know that China having the biggest population is the truth as it can be classed as  a fact. But what constitutes something to be a fact? Can certain people perceive truth and fact as something completely different and interpret it to be fiction?

The BBC defines a fact as “something that can be checked and backed up with evidence.” This can be seen as the truth, but what if to some people the evidence provided isn’t sufficient enough to make them believe something is a fact?

Fantasy – Definition: ‘the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.’

Most of us to think of fantasy as something that is impossible to happen in our lives, and features things that we’d never be able to see/experience. Although this is what I believe to be true, a lot of people have shown that they can make their fantasy a reality. For example, many musicians, athletes, actors etc. all dreamed of the fantasy of being able to pursue their dream career, and now they are living it. So in perspective they were able to turn something that was once and dream and fantasy and transform it into their reality.

Fiction – Definition: ‘invention or fabrication as opposed to fact.’

Fiction in essence is something that began as a way for people to express themselves from the very early days of basic story telling to today’s multi million holly-wood films. It’s something that was created for people to think of different ideas and make things up while also keeping people safe and not scared as it was something that is not true in reality. Such as trolls living underneath bridges in fairy tales,  they are not real, but sometimes fiction made people believe they were.

With this project I’d first like to research photographers and artists that look at these themes of truth, fantasy and fiction, and how they have their views on what they perceived to be the truth and fiction in reality, and how we can bring these fantasy ideas to life through photography and art.