At Epcot in Disney World, you can see more clearly than anywhere the death of photography and it’s very democratic rebirth. Photography was once considered a science, then an art. It is now a revolution in images, everyone is taking photos of everything, everyone has a cell phone camera, video camera, or digital camera. There is nothing of beauty or movement, and many things with neither, but all are now recorded and stories.

The people who used to be photographers charge to take pictures of the people with the cameras, they stand in front of every symbolic image and take photos of the people with the cameras who pause to have their own images recorded. Nothing need be remembered, every image in the world is now shared.

For me, a creative challenge. What can I possibly photograph at Disney World that everyone has not seen million times. I try and focus on images,scenes, feelings, to capture a moment in time and space. I wonder what it means that we no longer need to remember anything or consider it, we can look at it later, for free and as often as we want.

Once upon a time, a photograph was a complex thing involving light and equipment and it cost a lot of money and time to produce an image that could be saved. It is miraculous and democratic that everyone can be a photographer now, and their tiny cameras are every bit as good as mine. Is there any art to photography any more? I don’t know, I can’t say, I’m too close to it. When anyone can do it, does it still have special meaning? I think so, but I’m not sure why yet. The people at Disney are smart, every few feet in front of every fountain or iconic symbol are photographers waiting at special photo stations, they take pictures of people who have signed up and beam them to a printing station where they can be printed or transmitted digitally.

I was watching them all day, two told me they used to be professional photographers but the digital revolution took their work away, they now take photos of people taking photos.