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In this blog, we will discuss the 6 reasons why photography is important.
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- What is the significance of photography?
- What drives us to persevere?
- What is significant to us is captured in our images
- Photographs are an important part of our history
- Photographs enable us to exchange and communicate information
- We become artists because of photography
- Photography is a multifaceted language
- Photography can affect us
- Conclusion on why photography is important
What is the significance of photography?
It's a question that we've all wondered about at some point. Why do we keep getting out of bed at 4:00 a.m. to shoot the dawn when we might be warm and cozy in bed? When we might be watching TV or hanging out with friends, why do we spend so much time adjusting our compositions and learning about photography fundamentals?
And on those days when we're lacking in inspiration and pushing the shutter button feels like the most difficult thing in the world, we keep going - but why? What is it about photography that appeals to you so much?
Photography plays a very important role in society, everyone captures pictures for memories. Many peoples use the images in many places. Some peoples convert the images to different formats.
What drives us to persevere?
In this essay, I'll discuss six reasons why I believe photography is important. Hopefully, these thoughts will assist you in gaining clarity and drive – and will motivate you to capture photographs even when it feels as if everything is worthless, and you should put down the camera for good.
Let's get this party started.
What is significant to us is captured in our images
One of the most common responses, when asked what belongings they would save from a burning house, is a photograph album or a PC containing all of their digital images.
Isn't it intriguing? Even in a panic, we would choose images above precious jewelry.
This strong urge to keep our captured memories reveals a lot about the role of photography in our life, as well as our constant drive to turn our most treasured experiences into photos.
We keep a record of significant events and individuals in our life. Births and birthdays, marriages and anniversaries, holidays, and new homes are all documented because they are significant.
Photographs represent a chronology of our life, filled with the people and places we care about. They are our stories, which we may then tell others about.
In the end, the thousands of photographs we take come together to build a story about our lives.
Photographs are an important part of our history
I recall being on a train passing by a playground where students were standing at attention for the annual school picture. Teachers sat in the front row, with hundreds of students nicely groomed and uniformed behind them. The entire assembly was immobile for a split second. We arrived just as the photographer was about to press the shutter.
The vast gathering then dispersed, as though in slow motion, as children broke free from their forced immobility. Individuals were kicking balls or gathered together with pals as the orderly rows disintegrated.
None of those kids anticipated that the photograph would most likely outlast them. The school photo would resurface amid old documents in an attic a few generations later, and someone might look for their grandfather among the fresh, young features.
Photographs are important because they capture fleeting moments in our lives that appear to be unimportant to us at the time. It's possible that the value of a photograph isn't even for us; rather, it's for those who are looking for the person we used to be or the places we used to frequent.
Each photograph can be viewed as a small piece of a jigsaw puzzle that fits together to form a greater picture of our life.
Photographs enable us to exchange and communicate information
Images are much more than just a collection of data. Photography taps into our best and most generous side: the impulse to share what we find lovely and interesting with others.
You only need to glance at the plethora of photo-sharing sites to see this desire at work, as millions of people offer their personal, passionate, and occasionally bizarre perspectives on the world around them.
To put it another way, our photographs can allow strangers to share our lives with us. What a powerful statement.
We become artists because of photography
We can express ourselves through photography as an art form. Furthermore, we wish to photograph stunning scenery or an elderly man's wrinkled face.
Each of us will have a unique motivation for taking a photograph, but we all want to produce something.
Even if our 9-to-5 lives are mundane, the creation of a picture qualifies us as an artist. It makes me happy.
Photography is a multifaceted language
Our photographs can convey happiness and sadness, awe and sympathy. In photography, every human emotion has a place.
For many years, I thought there was no beauty in a region with subdued colors and a leaden sky, therefore I never valued my images of cloudy landscapes. I wanted the terrain to be vibrant and alive with color.
The lack of color in a scene, on the other hand, causes you to look for other things that would otherwise go unnoticed under brilliant sunlight. This could be the symmetry of hills or a single tree among hundreds in a forest.
Photography can affect us
Photographs can capture our attention and communicate directly with our emotions. Many powerful photographs can make us feel things, such as Nick Ut's shot of a wailing Vietnamese girl whose clothing has been burned away by napalm.
Photography gives us lessons about a wide spectrum of emotions on a more delicate level. The brightness and color of our life might be washed away by grief. There is no way to restore these magically. We'll have to wait. However, as we wait, we might look for the shapes and patterns that remain in the grayness. They'll eventually bring us back to color. I've used photos to represent that optimism of returning color during times of severe sorrow in my life.
Conclusion on why photography is important
Hopefully, you now have a better understanding of why people pursue photography — and why it is so important.
Now I'm curious as to why you pursue photography. What inspires you to keep photographing? What does it take for you to be inspired by photography?
Let us know what you think in the comments section below!
Declan O'Neill is a professional photographer based in New Zealand's South Island. He travels extensively, photographing the breathtaking splendor of New Zealand's countryside. The images in this article are part of a series called "The Anatomy of Melancholy," which is dedicated to his sister Ann, who died of Multiple System Atrophy.
