One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
First of all - I only believe what I see.
Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
Computer tech in general has brought us to the stage where producing a photo of a crime or even a moving picture of it does not prove a damned thing anymore. "I saw it with my own eyes" has become a bad joke.
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.
Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like little children.
