February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
9h 40m
English
Memories are reflections of our lives, like looking through a mirror distorted by our dreams, hopes, fears, and joy. We capture memories without trying or really knowing why, and I often find myself doing the same thing with photographs; it’s almost a compulsion. And now that there’s no cost to taking an exposure, we take them without really thinking about it. So if I don’t remember what I had for lunch last Tuesday, do I need to keep a picture of it? We’re all digital packrats—it’s getting harder to find those gems amongst the noise.
Those gems have a quality—an essence—that evokes not just factual memories but emotional ones, and those, stored either on film, as bits, or in neurons, are ...
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