Power Of Photography Research Paper

When you see a well taken photograph you immediately feel something. There is no need of words, no needs of a second look: they only came in a second moment. At first, it's just you, the picture in front of you, and the feelings it creates. We can all think of a picture, famous or not, that makes us feel something: a Russian soldier kissing a cross, a little girl drawing a bed under his brother asleep on the floor, or simply a relative smiling, there, forever on paper. This is the real power of photography: it moves you, somehow, and it also collects instants, crystallizing them as images of a moments existing for the eternity.

It may seem strange but understood this in a precise moment of my life. Actually, I've for many years had my camera, a Canon 1000D, especially during my many travel, so that I could shoot whatever captured my attention. But this process took a step further after my high school semester abroad, in Cairns, Australia. Indeed, during this period I took millions of photos and, back in Italy I had to reorganize them, deleting many. It was not an easy process, because every picture I decided to cancel reminds me of my life down under. Even If it was a blurred picture of my dog, it still was the one I cuddled and played with during

I'm Italian, and Italy is a land of artists, but in my school we only do a very generic art course. So I choose the visual art class without really expecting anything. It turned out to be my favourite one. It was unbelievable for me to walk around thinking how to develop a certain idea, to shoot with an old luggage on a crowded bus, or to find my face, edited as a lion by a classmate, on the school bulletin as best portrait of the month. By the way, the girl who did this became a dear friend, and everything started from a photo-shooting