Photographs become more important with time
We take more photographs than ever, but most never make it beyond a phone or a computer hard drive. Others have already had a much longer journey: old prints, albums, slides and negatives passed down through the family.
Perhaps you’ve inherited your parents’ family archive in a cardboard box that is now sitting in a cupboard or the loft. You know it matters, but deciding what to do with it is another thing entirely.
More than scanning a box of photographs
I’ve been working on a way of taking those photographs and turning them into a properly curated family archive.
Not simply scanning everything, but preserving the photographs that tell your family’s story and creating something beautiful from them.
It’s something I’ve wanted to offer for a while, and I’ve completed some successful tests. The idea is to give those photographs a life beyond the box they arrived in.
What those photographs represent
A photograph can bring back an expression, a person or a moment you haven’t thought about for years. Its value often has very little to do with whether it is technically perfect.
That’s something I think about in my portrait work too. We make photographs now, but we don’t always know which ones will become the most precious.
If you have an archive you would like to do something with, get in touch and tell me what you have. We can talk about the photographs, the story they tell and what you would like to create.
