"Photograph"

Imagine a world without photographs. Describe what this world would be like.

A world without photographs would be a world full of paintings. Photographs have become the new and quicker way to document life, paintings were the old way. Paintings have now become a luxury, photographs the necessity. I feel like our lives would slow down.

What does the word "photograph" mean to you?

The word "photograph" would be a synonym to "memory" for me. It's a moment in time that was frozen, and you can take that out and look at it and remember that moment. And it's not distorted, in a way. It records everything as it was - our memories about a particular event have a tendency to change over time. So if you forget about something, you can pull out the memory and look to see what was the color of the shirt you were wearing, or if it was your boyfriend that you were with, or if it was raining that day.

That's the main thing for photographs for me. They can be art and illusions too, but being a memory is the most important to me.