Photos can teach us.
Photos can teach us about the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with. It can also teach us about those people who are too far away for us to see; think National Geographic Magazine. I waited patiently every month for that magazine to arrive in the mail and there was always a fight about who got to read it first. Why? Because it opened up a whole world I would never have seen otherwise. The stories were wonderful, but it was the photographs that grabbed my attention and educated me first.
Our world has become accessible, for all, through photography. Without it we would not understand the devastation in Australia from fire or the beauty of the jungles in Borneo. Photography brings the world to us.