{"id":106795,"date":"2026-04-30T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=106795"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:38:05","slug":"should-chicagoans-take-fewer-photos-some-pros-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/should-chicagoans-take-fewer-photos-some-pros-say-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Chicagoans take fewer photos? Some pros say yes"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Antony Terence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Anastasia Khoubaeva, who sells cameras at Central Camera, Chicago\u2019s oldest camera store, points to rows of Canon PowerShots and Kodak PixPros on sale.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese will be gone by the end of next month,\u201d Khoubaeva said.<\/p>\n

As she shows visitors a Sony Cyber-shot, Khoubaeva said she thinks old-fashioned models are growing in popularity with people who want to avoid constant social notifications.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have over 83,000 photos on my phone that I haven\u2019t bothered to check,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year rocked hits from \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos\u201d (\u201cI should have taken more photos\u201d), the Puerto Rican rapper\u2019s latest album and a tribute to moments of resistance. But a growing number of obsessive picture-takers are talking about the joy in taking fewer images. Researchers are finding that snapping too many shots of sunsets and concerts may even harm your recollection of them.<\/p>\n

In a study<\/a> published in 2022, Julia S. Soares, an assistant professor of psychology at New Mexico State University, found that the more photos participants took of a subject, the more impaired their memories of said object were.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you only have one photo instead of a hundred, it gives you more to do with your mind than your eyes,\u201d Soares said. \u201cWhen people take photos, they want an episodic recollection, where they feel like they\u2019re reliving the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

When smartphones grew in popularity, digital cameras nearly went extinct, with Japan\u2019s Camera & Imaging Products Association<\/a> reporting 1.7 million with built-in lenses sold in 2023, down from 109 million in 2010. That number rose to 2.44 million in 2025, which, while a far cry from previous decades, points to a resurgence in interest.<\/p>\n

Could this be attributed to a desire for more intentional photography? There may be an answer in Soares\u2019 exploration of the photo-taking impairment effect, first introduced in Linda Henkel’s 2014 paper in Psychological Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cameras from the past decade have seen price hikes despite manufacturers\u2019 best efforts to introduce new models. (Antony Terence\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the neatly ordered cameras on display,\u00a0Khoubaeva\u00a0said\u00a0Canon\u2019s PowerShot G7 X Mark III\u00a0(2019) and\u00a0SX740 (2018)\u00a0models\u00a0were the most popular. The manufacturer is taking notes,\u00a0launching a\u00a030th anniversary\u00a0edition\u00a0G7 X\u00a0for $1,299 this April that quickly sold out.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDriven by strong demand, sales of compact cameras doubled\u00a0(in\u00a0financial year 2024-25)\u00a0due to increased supply through the\u00a0further\u00a0expansion of production,\u201d the company noted in its\u00a0<\/span>2025 report<\/span><\/a>\u00a0shared with investors.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Canon re-released the PowerShot SX740 HS Lite in 2024, with\u00a0features\u00a0nearly\u00a0identical\u00a0to the original\u00a0SX740 HS.\u00a0Despite\u00a0its lack of a touch screen, it\u00a0outsold the brand\u2019s latest PowerShot IXY 650 across Japan\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Yodobashi Camera stores<\/span><\/a>\u00a0last November.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter smartphones took over, 80% of our store visitors were serious buyers, as opposed to 40%-50% earlier,\u201d said\u00a0Sathianarayan\u00a0Kaithot,\u00a0who spent 25 years as a showroom manager at Canon Middle East.\u00a0\u201cTourists love the SX740 since it\u2019s a lightweight camera with good zoom on a budget.\u201d Released at $399,\u00a0it now costs $749 at Central Camera.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professional photographers are also noticing this shift toward compact cameras.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGen Z is so fascinated with all things vintage and analog that it\u2019s like a return to form,\u201d said\u00a0Ken\u00a0Yotsukura, a New York-based photographer whose work has appeared in\u00a0People, Vogue and The New York Times. \u201cI have people asking me all the time, \u2018What camera should I get?\u2019\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yotsukura\u00a0said he\u00a0owns four cameras and switches between them depending on where his\u00a0shoots\u00a0are scheduled.\u00a0At weddings, he sees officials asking guests to put their phones down after giving them\u00a010 seconds\u00a0to take pictures. He wants guests to take in the\u00a0moment\u00a0and\u00a0worries about a bigger threat: generative\u00a0artificial\u00a0intelligence.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m terrified that\u00a0one day, we\u2019re going to be cool with\u00a0AI-generated\u00a0wedding shoots,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Framed
The Museum of Contemporary Photography\u2019s latest exhibition celebrates its 50-year legacy. Image captured on Jan. 29. (Antony Terence\/MEDILL)\u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAt my wedding, we told people not to take photos because we didn\u2019t want to look back and just see a bunch of phones,\u201d said\u00a0Lucas Pandolfo,\u00a0a filmmaker and adjunct professor at the Paris College of Art. He found it ironic,\u00a0as someone\u00a0who\u2019s\u00a0spent\u00a0six\u00a0years teaching digital media.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI talk about iPhone photography in class, but I still think fewer devices should have cameras,\u201d he said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A roll of film typically costs $10-$20, giving old 35mm film cameras a cost per image that forces intention, Pandolfo said. With smartphones, he said, \u201cWe generally don\u2019t weigh the consequences of taking an image.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to remember a grocery list or something at a store, it costs nothing to take a picture, and maybe you\u00a0never look\u00a0at it again,\u201d\u00a0Pandolfo said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristin Taylor, the curator of academic programs and collections at Chicago\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Photography,\u00a0said she\u00a0likes to see\u00a0picture-takers\u00a0slow down to embrace the craft and mystery of not knowing what photos could turn into.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s something magical about photography that’s being lost with people taking so many photos,\u201d\u00a0she said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The museum\u2019s latest exhibition, \u201cCollecting Through the Decades,\u201d reminds visitors of the conversations that photography engages in, from politics to culture. Today, many people think first about how pictures would look on social media versus how they felt, Taylor said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Capturing a mental picture instead of a flurry of images on an iPhone is easier said than done. But changing this behavior is possible.\u00a0Yotsukura\u2019s\u00a0mantra: \u201cJust take a photo and put your phone down.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Antony Terence is a magazine specialization graduate student at Medill.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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