On August 19 every year, the world celebrates World Photography Day.
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Silhouette photo of a man with his camera on a tripod. Photo: unsplash |
The day aims at commemorating the process of capturing moments and emotions.
Also, it aims at bridging the gap between photographers and photo lovers around the world to earn a common platform.
According to worldphotographyday.com:
Since the early 19th century, photography has become an ever-increasing medium of personal expression and appreciation for countless people around the world.
A photograph has the ability to capture a place; an experience; an idea; a moment in time. For this reason, it’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Photographs can convey a feeling faster than, and sometimes even more effectively than words can. A photograph can make the viewer see the world the way the photographer sees it.
Photographs even transcend the passing of time – a photo from a hundred years ago can still be as appreciated now, as it was then. A photo taken tomorrow, can still be just as appreciated by others in a hundred years’ time.