Why do we take photographs?
on limitations, beauty, and the outsourcing of memory. plus disposable cameras and why they're so great.
Since I logged off social media, I take a lot less photos with my phone. Without a constant running ‘story’ to update on Instagram or pretty updates to post on Facebook, I just reach for my phone a lot less. But I still take a lot of pictures. I probably average ten or so new photos a day1 and I have well over a thousand photos in my Camera library.
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