Why do people take/make photographs? The reason why people take photographs is because of many different reasons but the main reason I think is because they wanted to capture a certain memory that they had that day.However, people also take photos to document about what is happening around the world such as wars or celebrations. Then these photographs will go on thing like the news or in the news paper. Why is photography important? This is important because if there is something that you would like to remember then you could take a portrait of someone or something. However, if it is for the news then it could be to bring people to realisation of whats going on around the world. Such as things like war and conflict.