I strongly disagree. Photography can tell stories which videos can't (and vice versa). For example, compare at this image: https://i.imgur.com/pmfMUYc.jpeg h

I strongly disagree. Photography can tell stories which videos can't (and vice versa). For example, compare at this image: https://i.imgur.com/pmfMUYc.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/pmfMUYc.jpeg To this video containing the same moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdsVO7HaJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdsVO7HaJg Look at the player's emotion in the image. What he feels in that split-second, the look in his eyes, gets lost if you just see the video. Look at the out of focus area. The boys in the top-right hugging, the older couple in the older couple in the top-left who can't believe their eyes, the other players reacting to the home run. Look at the bat, suspended in mid-air with no motion-blur. The object which kicked off the celebration completely frozen in time. Everyone in the photo is looking at where the ball went, but the player is looking at the bat. TL;DR: Because it (generally) takes much longer to look at a photo than it does to actually create a photo, there's a time dilation that goes on. You can freeze a single moment, and then take the time later to absorb everything which goes on in it.