The camera goes back further in history than many realize.  Aristotle used a dark box with a hole in it to observe the sun and wondered why, regardless of the shape of the hole, the sun always appeared round.   This rough camera obscura gained popularity beginning in the fifteenth century as a means of rendering perspective and proportion.  Literally putting a drawing surface within the box and tracing the image cast through the pinhole lens allowed artists to draw the world.  Photography means light drawing, its a compound word with two processes; one to capture the light, the other to make what you want of the image it creates.  The images first created by hand gave way to Daguerre’s silver and iodine process, then to glass plates, to film, then to grids of photon sensitive wells that capture light and write it to digital code.  There is no difference between digital work and film, or film and the camera obscura.   Photography is capturing light and through one’s interpretation of it, whether by manipulation of exposure or by digital means, creating an image.