Candid

This week we were told to bring in a picture from our childhood that represented something. A birthday, christmas day, anything. When people began to show their photos to the rest of the class we began to realize that almost all of them were joyful and the occupants of the photos were smiling. We slowly realized that photos aren't always truthful in what they convey; life isn't always sunshines and rainbows and because of this pictures are not an accurate representation of life. Although, many people said "well what about the candid photos? the ones where no one is paying attention and it truly is real life". This presented a sort of gray area in the realm of photos. But from experience i can say that some "candid" photos aren't really candid. Ive seen the typical Best-friend-laughing-at-eachother-like-we-dont-have-a-care-in-the-world photo planned out to be "candid", creating a fallacy. Oh and we can't forget all the heart throbbing "relation ship goals <3" photos scattered across the internet. Because how can a single photo represent the perfect relationship that every person wishes to have? Pictures only represent a single perspective from which something is seen; and this perspective might not always be the truth.

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