We see thousands of photos a day and give each one three seconds. This episode is about what's waiting on the other side of second ten.

While cleaning out my phone, I found fourteen photos of a parking spot — and, buried between the receipts and the wifi passwords, one photo of a friend laughing so hard he had to hold on to the table. I'd never actually looked at it. Not once, in two years.

Most of the photos in our lives were never meant to be looked at. They're messages, receipts, proof — photos made to be used up. So we've trained ourselves into the three-second habit: look at everything, see almost nothing. But once in a while a photograph refuses to be walked past. It grabs your sleeve. This episode is about what happens when you stop. I'll tell you about a print I bought at a flea market for almost nothing — a stranger  ...