A photo deserves more than a 2-second glance

Praise for a better attention span

Social media always reminds me of those horrible T-shirts with those awful lyrics that your parents used to bring back from holidays.

It works the same way with social media:

"They went to [place] and all we got is this lousy photo"

Better make memories IRL. Want to know what I experienced? Ask me and I'll tell you over a drink.

We now see more images in a day than someone in the 20th century saw in their entire life

This absurd increase is largely due to the digitalisation of photography and the omnipresence of screens in our daily lives.

At the beginning of the 20th century, seeing photographs was a relatively rare event. Photographs were mainly printed in newspapers, magazines and books and were often used for documentary or artistic purposes. People did not have the easy access to photographs that we have today.

In modern times, with the rise of smartphones, social media and the internet in general, photographs are all around us. People scroll through their social media feeds, read on…