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. The core principal of image-as-document is made from the basis that the contemporary definition of a photograph as data that is captured by digital sensor (Digital Negative). If the data is added post-capture, it is not of the document. If the execution is superlative the subject cannot be mistaken as incidental; the creative techniques cannot be mistaken as accidental.

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