"Without events, there is no time."

This short quote holds a lot of meaning and has been hard for me to wrap my head around. My interpretation of the quote, considering its relationship to photography, is that time may pass, but its passing is insignificant without events to characterize it. Photography gives us the ability to capture time and the events that it holds. Without the ability to look back on and remember the past, it is difficult to comprehend the passing of time.

Time is given meaning by events. If events are not present, and things do not change, it would be hard to understand the notion of time. The world in the 1940s would be very similar to the world today had events not taken place and changed the way in which we perceive these two times. However, events did take place and left these two times distinct from eachother.

The ability of the photograph to capture an event in time allows us to really feel the differences in time and the events that comprise it. While we may comprehend the notion of time, we cannot really experience it once it has passed. However, photographs give us the ability to physically see the differences as time passes. Without events and distinctions in time to photograph, the understanding of time through photographs would be lost.

In a nutshell, events characterize time. Events progress has time continues and creates distinction between different moments in history.