Photography has its strengths and weaknesses. It tends to be usesd very literally, but it needn't be.
Like say you want to take a photo of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - one you'd have to go there, two you'd have to go back in time a few millienia, three you'd have to probably get permission from Nebuchadnezzar II...
Do you start to see the problem?
Or you could just create them from imagination with photomontage
Or you could paint them photorealisticly, or surrealisticly, or draw them, or recreate them for real, or whatever turns you on really