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WHY PRINT STILL MATTERS

A short note on why physical photographs continue to outlast the digital ones.

We take more photographs than ever, but we look at fewer of them. The digital ones are immediate, infinite, weightless — and quickly forgotten. The printed ones survive.

A print has a different relationship with time. It exists in a single place. It belongs to someone. It can be held, framed, lost, found, passed on. It commits.

The most permanent way to keep a moment is still the oldest one: get it on paper, and put it somewhere you'll see it.