In "Say Cheese", a section of Bernard Cooper's Maps To Anywhere, he discusses the idea of photography. How photography, above all else, has survived through many years. Decades. Why?

Perhaps it is the need to remember and be remembered - photos allows us to immortalize ourselves forever more. "Take a picture, it'll last longer," they say, and it's true. While we may die, pictures last forever. And perhaps this caters to a desire to live forever or to be forever remembered; we want future people to look back at photos and see us and know we existed.

Photography is also displayed as a connection between peoples - it is used all over the world. People in all kinds of countries utilize photography or, at the least, know what it is. Everybody shares this desire to turn our memories into something tangible so we can hold onto them forever.