Imagine a world without photographs.
There could be no such a thing. Photography has been part of my life (and thus my world) as long as I can remember. And not only mine, but everyone's.
I believe that we humans are limited. In so many ways more than others and we have such a hard time fighting back that limitation. Time is apparently our only big main enemy.
And when mentioning time, I do not mean scheduling and organizing. I mean the fact that everything changes, everything moves and nothing stays put the same. So we need something, something that can actually placed that time and hold it. It's a way of fighting back time and this constant movement.
Photography has many uses, but almost all of them are related to this fact of "holding" something and having it right with us. Even the little pictures for ID have this meaning of holding someone's face and knowing that person.
This is maybe why some people in the ancient times believed that photography "captured" the souls.
What does the word "photograph" mean to you?
Well, the technical side would be "light print", but for me, the word means a lot.
Again, I've used photography for many things in my life, and most of them are art related and graphic design related. It's part of my job, of who I am and what I do. So for me, photograph would mean exactly that: a tool that I use almost always.
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