Lead Question How did the digital age and the phenomenon of snapshot photography transform cultural practices compared to fine-art photography? Proposal Overview For more than one century of its existence, photography has firmly entered the most diverse areas of today’s life. As an integral part of every person’s life, it influences the formation of the habits of visual perception, stereotypes, and habits in the era of visual expansion (Bate 2016). This explains the importance of studying snapshot photography, the history of its development, its functions, and ways of existence for understanding the processes of modern culture. Currently, there is a visual expansion of the representation of events, people, ideas and other things. The scale of distribution of everyday photography is associated with the improvement of photographic technology and the spread of electronic and digital technologies, making exploring snapshot photography particularly relevant. The topic of snapshot photography as a cultural phenomenon is studied insufficiently. Only several generalising works on the theory or modern impact of everyday photography are present in the academic literature (Smith & Lefley 2015). The existing research in the identified field of interest is often limited to studying a particular area or function of snapshot photography. Until the middle of the 20th century, the study of photography as such was dominated by the art history approach. It narrowed the area of ​​research to the analysis of the specifics of artistic practices, methods and the aesthetic qualities of individual works. With the onset of digital technologies and their rapid adoption by people, the shift in snapshot photography occurred towards co-presence and sharing in social media. Hjorth and Hendry (2015) state that the way photography was considered changed since making photographs became much easier. The openness with which people share their snapshots, comment on them and refer to each other shows a new level of publicity and communication. Therefore, it is critical to investigate how snapshot photography impacts the 21st century culture, including new perspectives, ideas, practices and problems. The purpose of the proposed written dissertation is to identify and analyse the specifics of snapshot photography in the contemporary cultural context and in the context of modern culture, which defines the following objectives:   * To determine the specificity of the concept of snapshot photography in terms of modern cultural aspects.   * To analyse the functions of snapshot photography in the basic structures of modern culture and its relation to communication.   * To identify the main problems associated with snapshot photography and ways to address them. The qualitative research design and descriptive analysis will be used as the study strategy. Nowadays, mobile photography is becoming one of the key forms of communication and one of the most significant ways to exchange evidence. At the same time, it contains the image of the central construct of a modern person’s thinking and acting (Wang, Alasuutari & Aro 2014). The accessibility and ease of using mobile cameras open up new opportunities for photographing many mome