F-Stops & Photo Bytes – Emotional Language

Photography is a complexed emotional language.

Photography, when at its best, is a powerful language which speaks to our emotions. If you have ever seen Nick Ut’s photograph of a crying Vietnamese girl whose clothes have been burnt away by napalm you will understand the power photography has to evoke our emotions. It allows us to tell our story and show others our frame of reference of the world around us. Whether it is good or bad.

Our images can express joy and sorrow, wonder, sympathy and even anger. Every human emotion can find a place in photography.