Photography: Past, Present, Future

Three generations use of photography…

Gen A: This was me in elementary school. Back row.

Gen X: Oh look, here’s a picture of Lulu arriving in Honiara. Nice weather there today.

Gen Z: Here’s me next week.

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Voice-over

Photographs used to be slow to process and expensive to take. They preserved a record of the past. Simple past.

Now photography is fast and cheap. Cell phones allow pictures to report the present elsewhere. Present continuous.

Might photographs become a time travelling device?

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