YES, everything revolves around light in Photography.
Photography is mainly "Painting with Light". In order to capture this light you use a camera.
Photography is always going to be called "photography"
One can view examples of light photography on photography blogs or on professional photography companies' websites (such as Sony). Look around to find the best examples.
It is Photography. Photography comes from 2 greek words Photo is the stem that means "light" and graphein is the verb that means "to write" so literally, photography means writing with light
I'm not going to bother typing up a lot for this because it sounds like an essay question for your class. Just look at it this way, photography is literally the act of recording light. That's both its scientific and artistic definition. This is like asking why sound is important in music.
There are various places where you can find photography tutorials online. Silver Light provides free photography tutorials and an introduction to photography.
One can learn about light meter photography when purchasing a photography magazine. One can also look it up on the internet or question professional photographers.
Traditional Photography records light from a camera on to film, digital records the light on to a light sensitive digital CCD that transferrs the image into data and records it as a digital file.
That light is a form of energy.
This is most often known simply as "candlelight photography". It is basically a subset of "ambient light photography" which taking photographs by the "available" light. In other word, not adding flash or other auxilery light to the scene.
"Infrared photography" is the specialty that's most dependent on it.
It comes from The Greek word photo - light and graphos - writing. A photograph is writing with light.