The Mindful Photographer

Digital Life

Are you a digital native who grew up with computers and devices at your fingertips, or did you come to the silicon banquet later in life? I am the latter and many of my students are the former. Both conditions hold their inherent benefits and challenges. If you grew up in the past twenty-five years, it is likely that digital technology seamlessly integrates and inserts itself in all areas of your life: educational, professional, social, creative, and even romantic. For those of us who came of age in the mid to late twentieth century, our life was analog with papers and pens, books, libraries, newspapers, film and darkrooms, letters written by hand, and actual telephones. Many came to the digital revolution kicking and screaming, ...