Without events, there is no time.

Photography is the pinnacle of the interaction between light and time. Both must be proportioned well in order to create a technically good photograph. Therefore, photography is all about time, and taking pictures is a way to capture a moment as realistically as possible so we can see it and remember it long after the moment has occurred.


Can we really say, “without events, there is no time?” Yes. Everything can be labeled as an event depending on how you operationally define it. Even if a person is the epitome of sloth, their heart still beats and that can be defined as an event. Time is inescapable and we live in this world full of and often based off of time, and we try to define it as correctly as such an abstract concept can be. It’s like trying to define or compare the theory of infinity—it’s not a number but a concept.

What is time anyway? The passing of a moment? And how do we define it? In our own relation to the sun? Well how do you define time on the sun, is it always 12:00pm? Since we are mortal, time is salient to us. In our memories, we can see and feel the passing of time by a chronology of events and our slow maturation. But time never stops. Nothing ever stops which means that events never stop. So when everything is changing and dynamic, time cannot exist without events because events occur due to time. If time stopped, everything would be frozen. Therefore, without events there is no time, and vice versa.