‘What is photography?’ may sound like an easy question to answer but the potential replies

could fill this book alone. The fact that photography can mean different things to different
people is part of its enduring appeal. Photography is such a part of our lives now that it would
be incomprehensible to think of a world without it. We probably couldn’t contemplate the fact
of a wedding, watching the children grow up, or going on holiday without the camera. We are
bombarded and saturated by images constantly, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, as well
as the television and internet, yet we have an insatiable desire for more.