There are time when we don’t feel like appearing on photographs. Reasons vary form not feeling dressed up appropriately to not feeling good in or own skin. Yet the moments never repeat and sometimes such simple refusal can costs us a regret for a life time.

I know perfectly well the feeling of wanting to escape my own skin. I’ve done hiding from photographs for all kind of reasons and appearing to such just to record the moment. Both led me to the conclusion - life doesn’t stop for anyone so better a bad photo with the loved ones, that no photo to remind us the moment.

It all comes down to this - what do you want to remember and with who? The value of a photograph is not the perfect exposure or perfect model body positioned well. Sometimes the most important photographs are blurry, not exposed correctly or randomly summarising a situation using part of people and weird objects.

Social media has turned photography into a daily competition for the most exciting, rich life of the wannabe entrepreneur who made it in his 30s. Yet the value remains in a simple, genuine photograph at your grandparents village house eating vegetables from the garden in a hot summer day dressed up in the most basic outfit covered with dust of soil.