TTG’s Primary Goals
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1. To tackle “The Digital Dilemma”
“The Digital Dilemma” refers to the biggest question of the digital-imaging era: “How does our culture decide which visual images can be trusted now that trustworthiness can no longer be judged by looking?”
The world’s visual reality is radically changing, and the public needs to radically change how it regards images.
All of the approaches described on this website are responses to that need. TTG is designed to help the public sort through various sources of visual information (and visual disinformation) in this new era.
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2. To preserve the cultural value of the undoctored record
Undoctored records of real-world scenes, events, and people — regardless of who created those records and how biased they might be — have played an important role in civilization for many centuries.
But now, for the first time in history, doctored records cannot be visually distinguished from undoctored records no matter how closely they are examined.
It would be a tragic cultural loss if undoctored records were not identified and protected for the benefit of future citizens and civilizations.
TTG makes it easy for photo publishers to establish a clear separation between “undoctored visual records” and all other kinds of images, now and in the future.
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3. To make the “worldwide consensus” useable for all
There has long been a consensus in the free world about the ingredients of trustworthy photographs.
But that consensus would be of little use to most creators of photos if it were not fleshed out in practical form and if there were no way for photographers to tell viewers when a photo has all 9 of those ingredients.
With verifiably unaltered originals coming into play, TTG can be a helpful tool for anyone comparing “Before” (unaltered originals) and “After” (published) photographs.