Philosophic Documentarianism stands in opposition to the absurdity of contemporary media neutrality, where institutions will hedge against objective truths. This new school of thought will allow natural bias to occur as speculative thought, whilst declaration of truth remains neutral. Photography is considered the optimal medium as it allows an objective, visible truth whilst allowing philosophic interpretation. The school of thought is built upon the grounds of image-as-document; produced through superlative artistic and technical photographic techniques.

Basic principles:

• Artisan vs Artist

• Neutrality in contemporary terms is an opinion, not neutral delivery of truth.

• Image-as-document

• Correct usage of Visual Anthropology (& other misnomers commonly used)

• Stoicism in relation to still imagery