In the era of digital production of images, we all have access to photographic equipment and are able to produce images.  The camera is not an exclusive tool anymore, it has become as indispensable as a cellular phone, to record moments.  There has been a transition of photography.  Photographic practice and artistic licence is no longer exclusive of the photographer, and the masses are no longer concerned in the camera as a simple tool of documentation for those family moments which they want to immortalize.  There is a saturation of images, a saturation of photographers and a saturation of photography consumption.  It has become the language used to communicate trips, events, and experience.  Verbal communication no longer seems to have the leading role in transferring or exchanging experience.  The image has become a commodity object with false value attributed, not use-value or exchange-value, but truth-value.  

Until now it has been the media utilizing images for the communication of experience and the attribution of false signified to commodity objects.  Now, it is everyday communication, between individuals, which involves communication through image.  But not just images, the production of images through a creative process.  Just as a language, it depends on the skills of the individual how well one can transfer experience and communicate through photographic language.  There is also a knowledge of decoding photographs which seems to be starting to surface.  Today, there is a separation between those who can code and decode (produce and understand) an image and those who can’t. For the production of images the mass media is already teaching society, it will be some time until we are taught the decoding of images, but eventually it will be necessary to understand the enormous amount of images which are being produced.