Why Is Photography so Important?
Photography allows people to communicate what is important to them, helps to preserve history, facilitates communication, enables people to become artists and moves people in ways that words sometimes cannot. Though becoming a great photographer requires practice, anybody who has a camera can tap into the importance of photography.
The photographs on the walls of a person’s home or office can communicate a lot about what is important to him. Important people and events often are captured in photos that are preserved long after the people themselves are gone, allowing later generations to experience history. Photography is a well-established medium for preserving family and cultural histories as well. The people or events that are photographed perhaps will never be the same again, so taking advantage of opportunities to take photos allows for the remembrance of things as they once were.
Social media channels are full of people sharing photographs to communicate with others. In fact, some websites and social channels are built to simply allow people to share photos. As is evidenced by award-winning photos seen in the pages of magazines and websites, a photo is able to describe and to move a person to act in ways that words themselves may not.
