A picture is worth a thousand words …. Although this phrase emerged in the analog age of the early 20th century, the rise of digital photography offers the tantalizing possibility of joining each image’s thousand words with those of others,…
Photo Album 2015: Breaking the Boundaries
Today, more than 75 percent of people on our planet have mobile phones with cameras, and we use them frequently; in 2014 alone, we took an estimated one trillion photographs. At any important place or event, people are using their…
Photos are about Events
When you see something interesting happening, you take out your camera, now your mobile phone, and click. And that becomes your secondary visual memory. Clicking your phone camera is effortless and costs you almost zero. So now you take many…
Photos are more than Fleeting experiences
If one looks at all the emerging photo services that are built using confluence of mobile phone cameras, Internet, and social networks then one may start thinking that photos, and visual memory, is a fleeting experience. From Instagrams of the…
Photos 4: A disruptive change in communication
Mobile Phone Cameras are changing the nature of information as well as experiences. They are bridging the gap between information and experiences. This gap was created by absence of technology to capture, store, and share experiences. Since there was no…