Is there truth in a photograph?

No, a photograph is a fragment of an experience with richly intertwining aural, spacial, and temporal elements that are flattened and or eliminated when they are lain down in two dimensions either as emulsion on paper or pixels in a jpeg. We are left with the visual artifact of an event or place which offers an impenetrable surface, beyond which we can only speculate. There is no truth in a photograph, there isn't even a story, we the viewers bring truth and stories with us and project them onto the photograph.