What Is Photography Actually For?

What is photography even about? What’s the goal? Billions of photos are made every day, shared instantly, and forgotten just as fast. When I first picked up a camera, I struggled to understand where my photos fit into all of that and whether making them mattered at all. 

When I started photography, I felt like it needed a clear objective—some kind of outcome I could point to. I wanted to know what I was working toward, because without that, it felt like I was just producing images without any real direction.

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