Photographs, especially tangible prints, authenticate our world. Pictures are the present’s eyes in the past; think “seeing is believing”. Most of us have family, friends, moments, and/or experiences from the past we would love to pass on to our children or remember in later life. Pictures are the perfect medium for this experience.
Sharing a story about a relative is wonderful but seeing that picture of them makes the engagement much more profound. For example, I was born after my grandfather had past, but I was always told wonderful stories of him. Yet, what I remember above any story is pictures of him. The photos made the stories and the man real for me. A man, whom I had never met, I finally met, through a photograph.
