Mannay (2016) writes as follows: ‘Prosser (2006, p.17) contends that a photograph does not simply show us how things look, ‘it is an image produced by a mechanical device, at a very specific moment, in a particular context by a person working within a set of personal parameters’.
Reference
Mannay, Dawn (2016), Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics. Oxon: Routledge.