Question

What did the photographer who told Holly Carpenter that “everyone’s a photographer” mean by that statement?

Answer 1

It all comes down to the issue of beauty being in the eye of the beholder; in the end everyone's perspective is unique and will offer a unique point view in each circumstance, and since it's objective to judge if a picture is a good picture or not, the motivation behind and the information received by the audience from such picture is what would count as valuable; a pcture will always communicate something, whether it was intentional or a lucky shot.

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Answer 2

He simply alluded to the very definition of photography.
He conceptualized photography as an art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface. It means “to draw with light”. In that case, everyone is a photographer, because everyday our eyes are involved in this.