Chapter 1- Can photos change the world?
Pictures everywhere have had a large impact on everyone's lives, due to them being able to capture moments when they are most wanting to be taken for significance. Everyday moments are captured and events are significant because these moments are captured by a photojournalist. In a TED talk on how photos can change the world the speaker says, “Images provoke reactions from people and those reactions to cause change to happen.” Change happening will always stir the emotions of one's around them.
9/11 could be reminded to everyone in one of the most influential time in US history. Due to the terrible hardship, New York Trade Center took capture of many men, women and loved ones being lost in the ones throughout the terrorist that hijacked two planes. Personally being a young kid at the time, it was very shocking and saddening hearing about family in distress about loved ones perishing in the action of fire rained down on the trade center. Watching the aftermath of the attack on the news brought horrific amounts of deaths in the two attacks on both of the buildings, hearing explanations on why the two towers fell and who on what floors were affected. Seeing the city streets filled with ash from the two massive skyscrapers and unfortunately devastation of one of the world's major cities.
It will not matter how much technology humans will encounter in the later years of the lie, but as of now, there is nothing that can tell a story of remembering the past more than viewing a picture. Pictures will always be seen as the best ways to capture one specific moment in one spot in time that is so significant it is remembered for, learned from and nothing better would be a picture of two of the largest buildings in New York at the time crashing due to hatred. In Ted Rall's article, he says, “The United States claims to be a shining beacon of democracy to the world.” Not only would the effect be of the period when the two countries were at war, fighting for what they believe in and allowing security malfunctions change many people's lives eternally.
To the effect of something happening 10 plus years in our everyday lives, it makes travel security and transporting loved ones traveling away more than a safety concern but also a never happening again for a country of affected people. Not only was the USA all attacked in some way everyone had involvement and this brought widespread complexity to everyone's safety when in considering attacks from countries that had complications with the way ours views them. Also giving them the ability to do attacks unheard and unalarmed brought attention to a whole new view of foreign evaders from somewhere other than our containment. Having its large effect on people's lives at that moment but still caring with survivors today from the ground-level issues. This had a big impact on my life because I can still remember the day like it was yesterday. It seemed like the world stopped turning, and I was able to experience every second of those tragic moments because of photojournalists.
Moments are everywhere in life and being able to capture those moments makes them indispensable. “One moment in time can be captured and amplified with the click of a shutter.” A camera can be the biggest weapon in all assets of life due to its demanding ability to capture life in great observation. In Dan Gilmore's article he says, “Increasing prevalence of cameras has been to conduct a flagrantly unconstitutional war on photography” aimed, in so many cases, at preventing citizens from holding them accountable for their actions.” Even though many people view image capturing as a threat, they see the downside for all the wrong reasons. Photos have effects on people, and people can change the world, so photos do too.
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