Getting to a small, manageable and orderly collection of photographs is, for me, liberating and that’s my motivation for working carefully through this next stage.
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How to Collate Your Old Photograph Stash
How many times have you tried to find a particular photo but, after hunting everywhere it still eludes you? Having fewer photographs stored meaningfully and with easy access, are better than a mass of images hidden away in various old boxes.
Finding the Good Photographs
The biggest hurdle in sorting the stash of old photographs was just getting started but I determined to do it efficiently. My aim was to quickly reject as many unnecessary photographs as possible and get to a much smaller pile of keepers. Once there I could figure out how, in the circumstances, to preserve and present them in a meaningful way. This is part two (Part one is here)
The Forgotten Sort
Crouched in dark corners, forgotten in attics and cupboards, are boxes bursting with eyes and parts of limbs.
These postcard sized pieces of paper aren’t actually hiding shameful secrets but their owners still feel guilty. How so? The contents are precious but they’re in a muddle and few people actually know what to do with them. I’m talking about that unwieldy stash of old photographs that everyone has. Continue reading “The Forgotten Sort”
