"Bell and I"

My selfie, "Bell and I," depicts myself and my baby cousin Bella. I decided to take a picture with her this week after reading Susan Sontag's article on Photography and concentrating on this quote "To collect photographs is to collect the world. Movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; but with still photographs the image is also an object, lightweight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store." From this quote I gathered that photography has changed from going to a studio and paying a photographer to take a photograph of you to now being able to easily take a selfie of yourself anywhere from your phone. By Sontag saying it's lightweight and easy to store I believe she means to say that in the past photographs were framed or kept in scrapbooks whereas now photos can easily be stored on sites like iCloud or just in your phone. 
Over this weekend my grandmother wanted to take my baby cousin to get a professional photograph at a studio since she had not yet taken any baby pictures. We had a hard time finding a place since they are not so common anymore. Once we did find a place we were shocked by how expensive it was to get photos done. After going through with it and having to choose a package plan my grandma wanted to add wallet photos to the package and I was trying to explain to her that in my opinion most people do not carry wallet photos anymore. Wallet photos are a thing of the past that not many people continue to do because of the fact that we carry photos in our phones. 
Anyone can be a photographer with today's technology and advanced mobile devices. In my selfie Bell and I are sitting the same way and I incorporated the matching stuffed animals of Tiger from Winnie the Pooh as a prop.