“Ten percent of photos ever taken by humankind took place in the last 12 months”
Just think about that statement… it’s truly astonishing!
With spectacular cameras in almost every pocket across the world, capturing the moment has never been so easy. The ability to upload your creation to the internet instantly wherever you are on the likes of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter opens you up to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, making capturing that moment so much more rewarding and spectacular.
In 2014, according to Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report, people uploaded an average of 1.8 billion digital images every single day. That’s 657 billion photos per year. Another way to think about it: Every two minutes, humans take more photos than ever existed in total 150 years ago
The most–liked post on Instagram is a photo of an egg, which has been liked by over 54.7 million different accounts as of September 2020. The post is also the most–liked internet post of all time of any website.
The simplest answer for this is we have the ability to take as many photos as we want, where ever we want, whenever we want. Some people take them for the love of photography, some take photos for social media fame and some people take them as a profession.
As they say, “A picture is worth a thousand words……”
