As a noun, it is an image made by a camera that records light on a surface or sensor. As a verb, it means to take a picture of something or someone with a camera.
From Greek “phōt-” (light) + “-graph” (writing, drawing). It literally means “drawing with light.”
Every photograph is frozen light—tiny packets of energy captured and turned into memory. The idea that we ‘write with light’ makes photography feel less like copying reality and more like creating a new version of it.
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