When looking at a photograph for the first time you interpret the image in your own individual way.  A photograph can capture a moment in time and be re lived over and over again.  A person only experiences their life and through photos you are able to share a part of someone else’s life and what they were experiencing at that time. Certain images have been captured by photographers that will create a response of emotions in an individual and through these emotions that person may change.

Without these photographs people of the world would not be able to witness with their own eyes what this world is made of beyond what they haven seen.  Photographs have an impact on people that bring forth their own feelings which then promotes change in their behavior.  Johnathan Klein believed an image doesn’t change the world but rather creates reactions in people.  These reactions may then lead to change in the individual or larger movements affecting multiple people.  http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_klein_photos_that_changed_the_world.html   

In my lifetime a tragic event that will remain a part of history is September 11, 2001.  This attack on United States soil and the countless lives lost started a War on terror.  This is an event that I witnessed through images and videos live when I was in middle school.  These photographs opened up the eyes of people in this world that innocent lives are taken everyday.

Photo taken by: Reuters
Image source: http://www.salon.com/2012/06/19/new_nsa_docs_reveal_911_truths/

 

Photo taken by: Thomas Franklin
Image source: http://mycrzylife.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/never-forget-2/

Through photographs people witness both good and bad things that consist of this earth.  This allows an individual to analyze this image and what is going on around the world and act based on their own beliefs.  Images freeze a moment in time and people react to these images.  Images that create positive emotions in people should be exposed more than negative images in hopes to create positives changes in people.  Sometimes you see someones else do something nice and it makes you want to repeat that feeling.