Is photo manipulation the same as self manipulation for example make up? Some people would say that make up on a women could be as misleading as a photoshopped photo. In this photo who is the true self?

While we examined several examples of political photo manipulation abroad it seems that we have failed to analyse or simply look at any contemporary pictures here at home. Here is an example of one. The photo depicts President Obama and the first lady descending from a plane. It seems that the first lady was photo shopped into the photo as you can see by the clear discrepancy with their hands.

I came across this photo while browsing facebook. The caption read “Which one is a guy?” Honestly I don’t know nor do I care but its amazing how powerful a small caption can be. It can bring about so many thoughts and bring so much into question. Without  the caption I would have just scrolled past the photo without even a second glance.