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Photography Changes Who We Are
Photography is central to understanding who we are and how we portray ourselves and those around us. Here you’ll find stories about portraits and other pictures that create or shape identities, define our civil rights, or declare our patriotism.
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Photography changes our relationship to time, the unknown, and to ourselves
By Robert Pollack
![[Left] Lower Rose Window, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, October 2009, Bernardo Núñez, Digital photograph, courtesy of Bernardo Núñez / Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City; [Right] B-DNA (seen end-on), courtesy of Dr. Robert Langridge](/images/upload/Images/sm_5960_Image_Pollack_HeadImage-Composite.jpg)
Robert Pollack, director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, considers how images that stop the flow of time reflect aspects of both scientific prediction and religious revelation.
Photography changes the photographer
By Robin Bachtler Cushman
![Painted Lady, Vanessa carduii, Log House Plants Nursery, Cottage Grove, Oregon [© August 1998 Robin Bachtler Cushman]](/images/upload/Images/sm_6014_Image_RobinBachtlerCushman.jpg)
Visitor contributor Robin Bachtler Cushman, horticultural and fine art photographer, shares how unexpected life pursuits and passions can originate from a single detailed photograph.
