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We take pictures of everything because a camera is now cheap, instant, and always in our pocket — and because it turns out to be a surprisingly good tool for paying attention, a surprisingly poor tool for remembering, and a genuinely powerful tool for staying connected.

Somewhere between the disposable camera on a friend's nightstand and the shoebox of prints in a parent's closet, Gen Z found something the algorithm couldn't give them: a photo that just exists. No feed, no filter, no metrics. Just paper.