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One of the reasons I think I’ve always been drawn to photography: I have #aphantasia. I can’t ’make up’ images in my head. I don’t have *any* images in my head.

‘Imagine a palm tree swaying..’ I can imagine the breeze and the smell of the scene. But I can’t see the palm tree. Or the sea. Or the beach.

I have no visual dreams. In my dreams. I can feel space and sense smell: the smell of a crowded, smoky bar in a dream is far more vivid than any picture I can make up, because there is no picture.

Photography helps me remember things I have seen.