Amber Samuel Photography

This is an interesting bit of research on the connection between photography and memory...

Taking Photographs Does Something Extremely Weird To Your Memory, And No One Knows Why Everyone’s phone has a camera in it, and you don’t need to be a professional to take fairly decent-looking but otherwise highly disposable snaps of the wor

In a world of selfies and snapshots, the ubiquitous camera-phone hybrid, all I want to do is take photographs. I wish photography were an art people still valued and it took the skill of an artist to create. But technology makes photographic artists' work nearly obsolete. That same technology has however probably given more than it's taken, it has expanded our ability to capture events in real-time from perspectives never before attained, it has allowed us a more vast exploration into the universe and our own ecosystems, it has captured political movements, personal moments, injustices, tremendous generosities, the view from the highest peaks and images from the darkest depths. It will give us a global community and real-time history lesson of we let it. Here's to evolution.