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       Steve McCurry was born on April 23, 1950, and is a photographer who mainly takes pictures of conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Some of the places he has taken pictures in were Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Lebanon. His goal is to help people understand the tragedies of these wars that are so far away and humanize the people in them. Due to his photography, he won many accolades because of his pursuit for awareness. I believe that the photos that he has taken truly emphasize both the cruelty and the determination of humanity. In the photo above I think it truly represents both facets of humanity I talked about before. Here we can see presumably a mother and her child sitting on an apartment porch with decimated buildings nearby due to bombings and other catastrophes. It shows how humanity can be extremely cruel to each other, willing to kill and ruin the lives of others as long as it benefits them. Yet in this same picture, both mother and daughter are cutt...

 I believe that photography is the act of creating, keeping, and experiencing cherished memories. Photos are used in a multitude of ways to help people do their jobs, like physicists who use photos to see science at work or astronauts taking pictures of the earth from space to better understand the world we live in. However, I can't see photography as anything else but a time capsule. A way to preserve memories better and clearer than our minds ever could. Photography is so personal because it's your choice in what you decide to take a photo of. It grants the freedom of choosing which memories you wish to forever cherish.  Sometimes, I would scroll through my gallery, observing all the pictures I have taken over the years, and lots of times I would find images I couldn't recall taking, events I never remembered happening. But as soon as I looked at the image, it allowed me to piece together the context of that image. It gave me memories of events long ago, of things ...