If Everything is Photo Worthy, Then Nothing Is

Reassessing our compulsion to capture every moment

Do you take a picture of everything? Food comes, take a photo. “Camera eats first” as my father-in-law says. Turn a corner while hiking, take a photo. Our phones make snapping a shot so easy. But I wonder if we are deluding ourselves and wasting time.

I store my photos on a custom iMac I built. Over 100,000 photos and videos take up 800GB and very infre…