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What’s so great about photography?

‘Photography is a magical thing.’

Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

The brilliant thing about photography is that anyone can take pictures and every photographer has the chance to create images in his or her own unique way. Photography is a potent and powerful force, able to tell huge stories in single images. Its diversity and possibilities are immense, and it is constantly evolving in exciting new directions. Photography is a very young medium and is now developing very, very fast. It has been around for such a short time compared to other means of artistic expression and it has so much more potential still to be explored.

‘Photography is so young, we are still at the cave-painting stage. Maybe in another ...

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