The most common means of human communication is language and for
good reason, languages are sets of convention and conventions are convenient.
But what you cannot express from the world of words made from 26
alphabets of English language, you can better express in a single click of a
photograph to say more!
Each one can make the number of different stories from the
single photograph clicked through the third eye of the camera.
Photography is considered one of the best media for child rights
awareness now a day. Through photography, one can make others objective to
focus attention and create visibility of issues related to various issues as it
is easy to understand through photographs than words.
Languages are the high point of human expression but this is a
mistake. Language is not the only tool with which to express yourself, and
sometimes not even the best one. Languages are indeed amazing, but so too are
other means of human expression. When words become unclear, you can express
with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be
comfortable with silence. This is the reason, certain mature
photographers spend hours, days together to click a single photograph to
express their feelings in the clicked photograph, than words.
I recollect when I presented the photograph clicked to one of
nearest newly wedded couple with a word – Silence is a great art of
conversation and it was appreciated. Sometimes which one cannot express in
words, can put across with the click of particular moments in a photograph.
In another incident, it was the photograph, I call to mind,
which was sent for caption contest of mentally retarded person to a newspaper
and when it was published, the relatives came to meet me after getting my
address from the newspaper, to know about the well-being of the person who has
left home but did not reach back.
No doubt, words are, after all, incredible versatile things but
Edward Hopper rightly opined that if you could say it in words, there would not
reason to paint. In other words, if few can paint like Hopper, the
others can have to feel in that painting.
Still, every means of expression have their weaknesses as well
as their strengths but at the same time, words are no exception as some cannot
even express their thoughts in better words.
Frankly speaking, photography is one of the best media to
express many things without writing even a single word.
Photography expresses the feeling better than words….
By HARISH MONGA DIDO
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