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# Why Adding Text to Your Photos is Important
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/why-adding-text-to-your-photos-is-important/
- Published: 2013-05-09T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2013-05-09T05:00:00.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: photography, storytelling

[Brooks Jensen](http://daily.lenswork.com/2013/05/image-text-as-point-of-entry.html?ref=cjchilvers.com) shares a story about how a viewer got interested in his portfolio based on text, not photos:

> “Through the stories she was able to connect with the images. Notice the sequence of events in that last sentence. It was the stories — the words and text — that allowed her to form an appreciation for the images, a sequence that is 180° reversed from what we would normally expect."