Sontag speaks about how ‘Photographs help people make sense of a space in which they feel insecure’, becoming the bridge of communication between a photographer and its subject. This allows us to connect with not only our surroundings but also the people who occupy them, who then become part of the scenery in their own right.

She says ‘…when the human landscape is changed, biologically and socially… cameras are here to immortalize this’. In this sense, it can be considered that photography’s purpose is to capture and explain the years and landscapes around us. Doing this enables us as Billingham said ‘make sense of the world around us’, whilst also preserving it past its own life.

Sontag states ‘photographs are a grammar, and importantly ethics of seeing’. There are some experiences, cultures, people, or places that cannot be justified using just words, and so photography grants an outlet for this.

In such turbulent times in our own lives, moving out of home, photography has been helpful in my ‘finding my sense of place’, as it immortalizes the people that make me feel most at home – allowing me to make sense of my new ‘place’.