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Photography as an Evidentiary Tool: The Creation of Accurate Evidence

Gale E. Spring is an Associate Professor of Scientific Photography at RMIT University and Program Director of Applied Science Photography. ©2001 Gale E. Spring (text) Since its birth in 1836, the question of whether photography is an art or a science has been debated. In truth, it has a foot in both camps leaving the contemporary viewer to continue the debate. Although the art cannot be excised from the practice of photography, proper photographic technique for evidence documentation always strives to reproduce a fair and accurate representation of objects or scenes, without bias or judgement. There is a lot of science and mathematics involved in reproducing three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional piece of paper and then interpreting it back to relationships of position and size as well as disclosing other measurements and details that may be required.