Photography
The essential purpose of photography is communication. From the moment of its birth, photography had a dual character—expression and as a powerful scientific tool.
The term photography comes from two words Photo meaning Light and Graph meaning to Write.
Photography means light writing.
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's worth recording that this particular event or this particular object.
"At its simplest the message, decoded, means: I have decided that worth recording." - John Berger