Why do we make photographs?

Is it to preserve a moment? Is it to understand yourself and how you see the world? Or is it simply because we have to?

Since I’ve started sailing and doing charters on Mental Heeling I’ve had the chance to interact with a lot of really cool clients that, after they find out that I’m a photographer, they often ask me how I became a photographer. My go-to story I tell people when they ask is that my grandfather got me into photography when I was around 13 years old. Which…