Chapter 3How to Find your Photographic Voice

THE FILM, AS it is commonly known, analogue) camera business reached an all-time sales high in 1999. In that year, people around the world took 80 billion photos and bought approximately 70 million cameras. In 2014, it is estimated that 90 million compact and DSLR cameras were sold and approximately 2 billion phones and tablets with cameras; over 2 billion iPhone and Android smart phones were sold by the end of 2014. That’s a lot of people with cameras in their hands taking photographs and sharing them online!

It’s not the camera that takes the picture; it’s the person.

Photographer: David Bailey

Over 1.5 billion new photos are shared every day on Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat alone, which equates ...

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