Does it tell a thousand words?

A picture tells a thousand words. Or so we have been told.

Life today has been infiltrated with Snapchat filters, Photoshop, and the flash of the IPhone camera. We have forgotten to live in the moment- we instead focus on documenting in for later visitation.

Take a look around at concerts. Those attendees probably spent a great deal of money for their ticket; however, instead of enjoying the artist’s work, millennials today are busy documenting in on their social media.

Though this may be true, photographs also provide for basic framework to evoke nostalgia. A photograph may not tell all 1000 words, but it will definitely help you do so. Just remember the last time you flipped through an old photo album. Every single picture has a story, and yet no one but you and your close friends and family member know all those stories. In its most basic form, photo albums simply hold your memories, but to me, the only thing that makes photographs a memory is the story that accompanies it.

You see words and pictures go hand-in-hand which is why as young children we are first taught to read books with pictures and words. Why is that? It’s because we believe what we see and don’t have the ability yet to conjure up a mental image ourselves. Similarly, photographs provide with the purest form of truth. Nothing can be concealed or manipulated in a photograph- it’s exactly how you see it.

Photographs are ironic, huh?

On one hand they let you reminisce your past and use your imagination to turn those pictures into stories. However, on the other hand, they provide the simplest form of truth and reality.