This is a tough question and truthfully I've never thought about it. The first thing I think is there would be a lot of emptiness, blankness, and less color. There would be a lot less decorations in homes, or everything would be paintings/drawings. My house is filled with photos, both professional and fun family trips. We have a very colorful house, and without all the photos as decoration, there would just be painted walls and nothing else.
People would have to rely more on their thoughts for memories than on pictures that will trigger a memory or a thought about a special moment. For families that live far away from each other, there would be a loss of communication and grandparents would miss out on seeing their grandchildren grow up.
Not only are photographs meaningful in our daily lives, but they are important for our history. They can be pieces of art and represent parts of history. Photographers express their opinions or feelings through photographs. Plus, if photos didn’t exist we wouldn’t be able to document our history, whether thats family history or our country’s history. The past would be lost, and you would only be able to know what something looked like or what happened at a particular moment if you had been there or lived during that time.
We are very privileged to live in a society and a time where photographs exist.
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