In fact, photography is a tool for the blind. Because of our deep relationship with the animal world, our brain is wired exclusively to detect motion. In a natural state, we pay little or no attention to anything static because it offers little to no threat. We actually have to make a dedicated decision to focus our eyes and attention to something that is not in motion. Thus, in our everyday lives, we notice all the little things that move around us and hardly what doesn't. Advertising has known that for years thus the reason you have neon signs, commercials on tv and those annoying flashing banners on websites. But there is more to our blindness. Even as we pay attention to movement, we quickly identify patterns from which we can draw conclusions. We never, ever pay attention to an infinitesimal portion of the actions. Why would we ? We have to think about our security first. 
What the camera captures is both immobility and that slice of a motion. Two elements we are completely blind to. Even if we had witnessed the same events, from the same location as the photographer, it is extremely doubtful that we would have noticed what appears on the image. That fraction of second, for us, was lost in overall interpretation of an action, with the end result probably being, for us, the most import part. This is where photography cures our animalistic blindness . It allows us to stop, for as long as we wish, and focus into an infinitesimal fraction of a motion and analyze it freely. We are drawn to making our own conclusions on what the outcome could have been but, quite frankly, it doesn't matter much. What we revel into is the ability that we do not have to . The frozen frame moment becomes almost more important than the whole action altogether and opens up an entirely new dimension to our thinking. We no longer have to manage our primal “flight or fight” reaction but rather reach out to our cultural background to seek out better understanding. And we even process the image as part of our memory which we often, later on, confuse with real living moments. 
Every week here, we bring you some of those slices of motion, captured for you by complete strangers willing to sacrifice their life to let you better separate yourself form your animal condition.