The dictionary speaks of poetry as having passion, imagination and imagery. Without poetry, photography is copy work. It's interesting that reporters read and discuss written poetry, but photographers don't. It's easy to explain, reporters and poets both use words. A deeper explanation is that photographers are so engrossed with their own visual poetry they can't consider poetry in another language, words.
Visual poetry is the answer.
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