‘If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.’  Lewis Hine

What is the point of photography? Why do we feel so inclined to always be snapping fragments of time using light as our tool of choice? It is hard to quantify the uses of photography into one neat little box as it is employed and utilised for a myriad of things depending on which person has the camera draped around their neck. You might find yourself to be the designated memory catcher at every family occasion or perhaps it is that you feel the need to document every angle of your face or each of the visually tantalising foods that you decide to put into your body. You might fancy the built environment around you but know it deep in your heart that you could never be an architect, so you immerse yourself by absorbing and savouring the structures around you whilst saving them to look upon at a later date. You could use photography as a way of breathing new life into art like fashion for instance where at a point, clothing and textiles appear to be seemingly inanimate until they are woven into a fantastical scene that does more justice in actually telling their story. Photography has a wonderful tendency of doing that which is why I use it for when words don’t come to me naturally.

As Lewis Hine so aptly put it, ‘if I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.’