Flickr, one of the most popular photo-sharing sites globally, introduced Virtual Photography as a category in 2022. Their blog post states, “Virtual photography is an emerging art form specializing in photos taken inside a video game or virtual environment.” But is virtual photography really photography? Let’s discuss the issue below. What Is Photography? Before we talk about virtual photography, we must first set a baseline for what photography is. According to its Greek root words, φωτός (photos or light) and γραφή (graphe or to write), photography is writing with light. True to form, that’s how a camera works , even a digital one. But aside from the mechanical act of taking an image, photography’s purpose, when it was invented, was to capture real life as it was. Photography allowed people to see the world as the photographer saw it—not through the (sometimes unreliable) interpretation of a painter. Photography can […]
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