The Emotion of Photo’s
August 3, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Pragmatic Issues
I went to see Mum again this weekend and something struck me – how incredible photo’s are.
In Mum’s kitchen there is a photo of Dad when he was a toddler, I picked it up and couldn’t believe it when it was the same facial expression, same posture in a photo that Dad took of me many years ago. The photo showed me two things
1) How incredible that a camera can look at someone and ensure that for years ahead people can see what the camera saw all these years ago. Photo’s capture a time, photo’s even capture emotion in a subtle way which help bring that person alive.
2) I was also struck by how people live on…..It could have been me on that photo. I thought about how similar Dad and I were, it made sense to me that this desire inside of me to keep his spirit and values alive was not only a desire….but also what I was meant to do, what I was born to do….
Photo’s can cause tears, they cause smiles, they stir emotion. But for me when you have that special photo, then some part of that person remains alive.
