What is the significance of photography?

The essence of photography is the record of objective things. Photography is to photographers what writing is to writers and painting is to painters. Photography is a tool for photographers to express themselves. Taking pictures of daily life is like a diary, soft artistic conception is like prose, documentary shady is like reportage, portrait is like profile, and animals and plants are like popular science articles ... Photography itself is meaningless, and the significance lies in what thoughts and feelings you express, how much you contain and what you find. It can be the display of thoughts, the catharsis of emotions, science and education, or nonsense ... Just like something written by someone is vague and has no content, a photographer may shoot a film without connotation and meaning, or shoot a fancy but thoughtless article. The most typical one should be the commercial films made by Zhang Yimou in recent years. It looks beautiful, but it has no aftertaste and is boring. On the contrary, some award-winning films made by Zhang Yimou are not beautiful in actors and scenes, but rich in connotation. Therefore, photography is not the art of beauty, but the art of thought.