A photon has no time, is it unchanging because, having accelerated to c on emission, it has undergone time dilation tending to infinity. When the photon strikes the chemical compound in your eye the energy of the photon is transferred to the chemical which is now excited, it emits an electron or two and THAT is the signal that a photon has struck a receptor.
It is true that light moving at the speed of light does not "experience" time passing while it is in transit. But you are not in transit and time is not frozen for you - so you see the light when it reaches your eye (or another photoreceptor).
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