ABSTRACT: Contemporary society recently faced the introduction of a new phenomenon: the post-truth era. Terminology often used conjunctively with, amongst others, “alternative fact,” “fake news,”...Show moreABSTRACT: Contemporary society recently faced the introduction of a new phenomenon: the post-truth era. Terminology often used conjunctively with, amongst others, “alternative fact,” “fake news,” and “misinformation.” The term “post-truth” was coined in 1992 by Steve Tesich, to describe American society’s proneness to accept government lies. However, since its incorporation into the Oxford Dictionary in 2016, post-truth is defined as “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” This research aims to analyze, in what way, in a regimes of post-truth world, alternative meaning is established, and what role photography plays in this process. An extensive framework of literature is operationalized for the analysis of two case studies, both of photographs in a post-truth context. Subsequently, as the concept of meaning in the post-truth society is fractured, the potential, for the documentary language of images, to suture is explored.Show less