Lesson Plan: 1 – 2 lessons

Blog post: Create new blog post with title: Truth and Photography

Question: Name 3 things where manipulation of reality happens in photography.

1. Read text: Is it real?
   Make notes directly into your blog post above – 5 mins
   
   Link to text: Bright, Susan (2019) Is it Real? in Photography Decoded. London: Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
   
   
2. Cold-calling: sample answers
   
   
3. Blogpost: Re-evaluate your notes and thoughts from class discussion and add to blog post – 5 mins.

Link to story behind Capa’s image.

1. Research: Robert Capa and find out the context and story behind his famous image The Falling Soldier (1936).
   3 mins – make notes on whiteboards
   
   
2. Think, pair, share: Discuss 2 mins
   
   Question: Name some of the controversies and new discoveries around how the image was made.
   
   
3. Cold-calling: sample answers
   
   
4. Blogpost: Add image by Capa and write up notes from whiteboards and class discussion – 5 mins

ESSAY: Photography and Truth: Can a photograph lie?
DEADLINE: Mon 4 Nov

Go through instructions here:

Essay: Can a Photograph Lie? | 2025 Photography A Level Blog (hautlieucreative.co.uk)