why print photos?

It’s hardly necessary to argue for the value in photography. Everyone agrees there is immense value in having photographs of your life’s memories to keep, cherish and pass on. You can see it all over the internet and in your own iPhone camera roll. As a photographer who has grown up in this iPhone/social media age, I’m getting a little nervous that having such an excess of photographs floating around will mean we eventually end up with hardly any REAL or memorable photographs to look back on. I love using my phone camera to document fun little moments in my life but I’ve never actually printed out a photo from my phone and kept it in an album to cherish. It usually just goes snap, post, delete.

One of the things I’ve been blessed with in life has been having generations of relatives who have passed down their printed photos in albums. I have fond memories of the time I spent with family looking through albums from their weddings, parties, trips and everyday life. Spending that time, seeing and hearing about those memories, laughing with them, has given me a deeper appreciation for what I do as a photographer and who I do it for.