When reportage photographers play in the digital sand pit groping for the meaning of their medium in the electronic age, it is important that they do not lose sight of photography's unique powers of description. Although photographs have no hold on objective truth, it is important that those who make photographs are mindful of that which is truthFUL in their work. For the energy with which a picture is charged is something which lives independently of the photographer who created it. That which we call the "frisson of the authentic", that dimension of the picture which "touches" the viewer, also belongs to and, more importantly, has the power to affect deeply the lives of those who are represented in photographs, as can be seen by what follows.