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Have you experienced a train of thoughts flooding you with memories when you were handed a photo of a dear one long gone. It is not uncommon to see photos of loved ones tucked away in the insides of wallets and purses or adorning the walls at home.

Looking at a photo comforts and reassures us that everything is fine. We live around photos and they have become an intricate part of our lives. It is hard to assume a world without photographs. Pictures and photos are all around us: on the Internet, on TV, in newspapers, or magazines. The profound impact a picture can have on our senses can be fully understood when you come across a picture that depicts an evil face of humanity, portrayal of cruel expressions, or extreme poverty.
Such pictures force us to introspect and in the process, inadvertently make us more humane. A happy face can bring a smile to your face too, especially if the subject is a tiny tot or a playful toddler. A picture has the ability to speak a thousand words as you don’t always have to read the content to understand the full story. A picture without accompanying content, leaves a lot to imagination, and this fact tempts us to dwell more into this media to unearth its latent implications. Photography has the power to change the way you see the world around you. The most striking example of the omnipresence of photography can be found on the Internet. Online media uses it to convey hard-hitting news from across the globe depicting terrors and truths of war, and poverty. The pictures throw open a window to a world outside our world. Today, it is not easy trying to tell a real photo from a fake one. There is a good number of photos being circulated online that appears to be fabricated or edited through editing tools of the likes of Photoshop. With the advancement in technology behind image editing, it has become possible to alter an image in ways that can provide a complete makeover leaving few traces of the original image, or transform the picture into an artwork.
The world today, has many catalysts for change, one of them certainly is photography.