In this day in age, it seems like everyone has a digital camera, iPhone, iPad, or Android to snap photos of nearly every moment in their life. Through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, pictures are infiltrating our lives. It is hard to imagine a life without photos. They capture moments in our lives that we cherish which is why I think we love pictures.

Most Malawians, I presume, have never had a photo taken of them. This first struck me when Sam and I visited the Palliative Care Unit (for patients who are terminally ill) and saw a poster about making memory books. This poster described a project where people taught patients who were near the end of life how to make a memory book full of letters to loved ones and other items. This is to help the family prepare so that when a loved one passes, the children and family have something to remember them by. In somewhere like the US, we have plenty of photos to remember people, and it’s hard to imagine not having them.

  

Since people don’t get photos of themselves taken very often, they are always eager to see photos. I am constantly documenting my time here with photos (to put on the blog). Sometimes, random people on the street will ask you to take a photo of them so that they can see it. Once you show them the picture, they just crack up in laughter. Malawians love seeing photos of themselves!