Why Are Photos Important?

Photographs play an important role in everyone's life – they connect us to our past, they remind us of people, places, feelings, and stories. They can help us to know who we are. Photographs, even of buildings, can be vital memory cues for Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants. ...

Why do pictures matter?

Photographs allow us to share and to communicate

You only have to look at the multitude of photo-sharing sites to see this impulse at work, where millions of people share their personal, passionate, and sometimes quirky take on the world around them. In other words, our images can share our lives with strangers.

Why is photography important in today's society?

Photographs can create change. Through photography, you can highlight social issues and stigmas, you can force discussion, you can capture the evil and good of the world and bring it to light, allowing society to see what they often are ignorant of.