The present disclosure discloses a photographing apparatus, where the photographing apparatus includes a first lens and a second lens, where the first lens and the second lens are separately disposed on two adjacent surfaces of the photographing apparatus, the first lens is configured to acquire a first image, and the second lens is configured to acquire a second image; a light control unit, disposed at a juncture of an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the second lens, and configured to transmit or reflect the first image, and reflect or transmit the second image; and an image sensing unit configured to collect the first image and the second image using the light control unit, and synthesize the first image and the second image into an image of a wide field of view.