It's much easier to coin words if you set aside semantic propriety and just shuffle around the syntactic elements. Any actual physicists would probably be horrified by this most improper of personifications; photons can't possibly be agents, performing some action! They don't even experience time, as once you actually quantize some photon away from the arbitrary noise of the electromagnetic field, the photon's entire trajectory is all one spacetime interval.

Semantic propriety can be fun, although it takes an effort: the photing is photed by the fabric of spacetime itself, and individual photons are illusory, a notational convenience for drawing signals out of the noise.