Great topic!
I started photography at a very young age. I took my first photos at the age of ten or eleven... If you would ask me then what is photography I would probably give no clear answer. I just loved that I could hold a camera in my hands and capture images! This was the first feeling i remember which was very intense. The second thing I remember was that, in the beginning I just couldn't capture and express photographically, on the print, what I was seeing and feeling at the same time. Logical though, cause I had no experience and knowledge. My uncle and my father helped me a lot, as they already, new photography and provided me knowledge and inspiration to drive me towards self improvement.
For me photography is something very personal and very esoteric. It took me some years to realize exactly how photography was coming out of me.
I'm an introvert person. Photography is the extroversion of myself.
I'm also a dreamer. A thinker. And in trough photography i try to express how I see things around me with the eyes of my soul.
Photography is my psychotherapy. It is something that takes everything out of my mind. When I hold my camera it is like I'm in my own world. I sometimes don't pay attention around to anything.
Photography is something I do with my whole Be!