Photography changes everything (Marvin Heiferman)

      Steve McCurry is the type of photographer who goes around the world taking photos of different cultures and showing the different types of struggles one is dealing with. His photos allow us to see what is happening in other countries or continents that we would not know of but by him show casing his photos to the world it allows us to see what is happening. The picture below shows how everyone eats at the table and showing how all humans must eat to live. No matter where you're located everyone must eat to survive. This is the way of life. When looking at all of the different pictures that McCurry has posted on his blog site. It show cases how other people from other countries eat differently. What catches my eye most is how most of the pictures have family in it. The facial expressions amongst them showcase stress, happiness, and struggle. What I get from these pictures is that no matter what, the dinner table is where we come together as a family. It is where...

     Marvin Heiferman article mentions a lot of good uses for photography. The one that I found interesting was how food stylist will use good quality photos for their food so that they can promote it and make it look tasty. It's awesome to see what a photo can do especially what you take pictures of. This is similar to how to how we take pictures of ourselves. We are trying to find our good side or take good pictures of ourselves to share out there on social media or with other people. The article mentioned another great point in my opinion which is that we are all photographers whether we think we aren't. We are constantly taking pictures with our phones which makes us photographers. Every picture that we take with our phone or in general it has a meaning behind it.           Photography to me as I mentioned before has a meaning to all of us individually. Every picture that we take has meaning. To me when I see photos that I have taken it b...