Take a Photo Here – The New York Times

Take a Photo Here (Published 2018)

The places we go aren’t passive; they invite us to photograph them in certain ways.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/take-a-photo-here.html

We carry the cameras built into our phones around all the time, and the resulting flood of images says something about what people, in the aggregate, like to photograph. There are sunsets, meals, selfies, babies, dogs from dog people, cats by cat persons. There are distinctly contemporary ways of taking pictures at a party or of photographing landscapes. Originality, always hard to come by, is getting harder.