Human photography essay

Photography and Joy

Is it that by making photos we feel more joy, or is it that when we feel and experience joy, we like to photograph?

Both

When I see Seneca doing cute things or in cute arrangements, I love to photograph him. By photographing these moments, it both captures and immortalizes the joy I already experience, and also augments joy — to verify the joy I’m already experiencing.

Photography helps us notice the joy we are already experiencing before our very eyes

ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.